Gem to Ponder – Visiting the World

[source: snapped by me, tuesday 25 september, geelong]

– when its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. when it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, + real. I don’t want to find myself sighing + frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. — [mary oliver]