We all have these feelings Michele, and that is perfectly fine. Maybe we don't HAVE to shine. Maybe living in the now, with intent, with wonder, and just being is in itself just wonderful.

I find my garden, which is far from perfect because it's not of my creation, fills me with contentment, and surprise.

Just recently I was thinking about the colour fading as we move from autumn to winter here in Ozland, and then I came across all these life form, doing their job, in my garden, bulbs, and corms and and a spread of spring flowers I was about to dig out, but fortunately recalled seeing last summer.

That's when I wondered about the peace of it all, the attention to what they had to do.

Maybe this is where we humans fail. We're not in competition with each other. We are here to play our part.