Hi, I'm Sam,
I took my time to sit down and I tried to figure out the natural state of humans and I honestly think that humility should be our default mode if you consider how often we recycle different things in our lives and I'm not referring to plastics or those kind of recyclables. We recycle feelings, opinions, materials, humans, love, hatred, positions, cars and so on. At every point in our lives, somethings that we will consider new, with all the happiness, appreciation and love has probably been used by someone else and we will place so much value on something or someone another person discarded and wants nothing to do with. And this realization has absolutely nothing to do with how I receive or appreciate anything that's comes to me, it doesn't help me decide how much value to place on it or the sentimental value. I have the absolutely freedom to attach as much or as little as I want to it depending on how I feel about it and not about who had it before me or who will have it after me.
When I say humility as a default mode for something that becomes new to me but old to someone else, the humility is more about the opportunity for something to exist in my life, time and period as it will. The humility and understanding that I am the custodian or part of an intergal part for the period I am and knowing that I will someday part with it and someone else will treat it with as much love and care and I did or not. There is also the possibility that the recycling can come from within and for something or someone we already have. Like in the case of romantic relationship, some say, we find a million ways to love one person, in other words, finding new ways and recycling old ways to always remind us the importance of this person in our lives and in turn point out our importance in theirs.
They say change is the only constant thing in life and as such I like to thing that change is one thing that can make something old become new. The change can be on our part or another but the important thing is that change must occur for the feeling of fresh and new to be noticed and appreciated. When I think of myself and analyze the changes in my life, I find out that those changes has in one way or the other made me new in different aspects. Some aspects can be career, residence, gadget change, mindset change, who and how to love and its not just to be new to outsiders or to be seen as new, it can also be to feel new within myself. There's an underlying strength required to make the transformation from old to new while utilizing things from the old to make the new be seen, recognized and appreciated. When I feel new, I feel like life now looks and feels like a clean slate where I get to start drawing and coloring in a completely different way than I've been used to. And when I'm on the new path of drawing and coloring, the experiences and lessons from the old me is not completely discarded, I always without trying too hard find the most pleasant way to combine things from the old into whatever is new and the blend is always beautiful to experience.
The idea that something old can be seen and feel new as a result of change in ownership, state or locations whispers into my ear the need to reinvent myself when I start feeling dissatisfied with my current position. The need to change my position or state just to not only feel new but to adapt to new things because as much as I work to to be transformed, i have to acknowledge that things around me will change and those things will most likely not ask me for permission before they change and all I can do is try to interact with them from the new point which will most likely require me to change as well.
