Prequel

So, I am finally doing it. I am blogging. I love to write, I just never make the time. So this is me making time!! I have many thoughts all the time, and I think I need to start jotting some of them down.

Random thought. I saw Star Trek, and loved it. I am not gonna geek out and go into all the details, but post movie I had a realization. The movie brought you back before Scotty invented transwarp beaming, before Spock and Kirk were friends, before Kirk was a Captain. Most know the stories of The Enterprise's adventures and the character's victories. How nice is it to see all the personal journey's of the crew before they were a crew. To see who they were before they were saving the world, to see the relationships being formed. A prequel. This is not the first movie to do this to a popular series. Batman Begins shows us how Bruce Wayne's personal 'demons' lead him down the path to find Batman, to find redemption. To see how he learned to fight and come up with all the cool batman weapons. George Lucas took us back in Star Wars: Episodes 1-3 and delighted us with how Padme and Anakin fell in love, devestated us to see Anakin make choices that turned a good guy into a bad one. These prequels told us the stories before the story. As I child I often wondered of my parent's prequel. Who they were before they were my parents. I always asked for more stories of them when they were young, and their adventures. There is such wisdom in there experience and such joy in their lives if I take the time to walk through memory lane with them. I saw a picture of a young group of boys, come to find out it was my dad's basketball team. He was the handsome one in the middle. What I wouldn't give to know that guy in the picture. How different was he then than he is now?

that is when it hit me. Right now I am in the prequel of my life. My relatioships are forming, I am pushing past my personal demons choosing joy that is shaping who I am. I am learning to fight and choosing paths that will hopefully not lead to the dark side. If my kids were to come back in time from 2040, what would they see now? Hopefully their mom on the path to the leader/warrior she was created to be. Hopefully they will see in me and their father where they got their fiesty and tenatious spirit that is filled with heartbreaking love for others, full of grace and understanding. Hopefully we make a path for them worth following.

Today is the day where hopefully becomes surely. Where probable becomes definate. Because it wouldn't be a good prequel without a marking moment you make for yourself. Where you choose your path and follow it until your feet are bleeding, and then you still keep going.