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If you are the Last,You..are also the First

William Garza

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Camino Frances, The Jakobsweg
Do not be troubled Peregrino
If you are the Last...
You are also the First.

You are the Paradigm shift
The
Moment of Liminality onto which the whole world will pivot.
This is the Polar moment of Inertia which you will see at last..a truth.

A truth among truths
A chief mystery of which you open eyes at last.

To be the Last is also to be the First
Do you understand Pilgrim.

Your eyes are either open...
Or closed to this.

What is it you see Pilgrim?
If the eyes are open...
But your comprehension lags.

Or is that vision..frightening to oneself
The revelation..to bright..too-dark to bear.

You are the Last
You are the First

What does this gift mean.

Pilgrim...do you understand your free.
Do you understand the nature of this freedom?
Do you understand the responsibility toward yourself
To others.

Are you brave enough to look upon awful brightness illuminating every corner in your book of days..
Guilded.
Now and forever.

The Change comes upon you slowly
Surely
Quiet-ly

Do you know Pilgrim on the Way..

That You are the Last to see you as you were.
That you are the First to see you as you can..be.
Could...be
Want..to be..

The frightening precipice is at your feet
Change is the only constant in the Universe.
To do otherwise is against nature

Many people peer into that abyss and fear..
And..stop.

They are the last

Some...
Peer into the darkness and cast themselves forward and go

They are the First

And they know that as the last
The old rules dont apply anymore because they have no reason to enforce,apply,follow and believe in them anymore.

As the First
They can make the rules

Somewhere..out there a Pilgrim is facing the crisis
All this way..and am I..going to stay the same...
What have i learned?
Or
Am i embracing the change i feel...

Do I return to the outside world the same person?
Do i take charge and become the change i want in the world.

Its all up to you Pilgrim
The choice is there

You are the Last
You are the First.

Be Blessed this first day of a brand new year.
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.

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