Life is movement, and movement changes us. Do we have any control over it? Yes, at least in part. Of course, we cannot escape the passing of time, which ages us and challenges us with everyday situations. When I was 40, I discovered I had to accept some physical limitations – for example, the need to wear glasses for the first time. Then, at 60, I understood that I would have to live with the constant presence of pain. Not an immense pain – not yet, hopefully – just some discomfort… but that “something” would always hurt, today my back, tomorrow a tooth, then a muscle, etc.… This is not in our control. Still, something else is – time. It allows us to accumulate experiences. Those experiences can change according to our capacity to process them and the general direction we choose to give our lives.

Life constantly presents us with a choice to make. In many situations, there is a path toward the light, the Good, the Beautiful, the Just… and another one that leads, maybe not to the opposite—darkness and evil—but at least to a lack of light, to compromising what we know deep in our hearts is the right choice.

And what would that choice be? Well, in a few words, always walk toward the light!