I have a lot of favorite phrases.
My life can be summed up with the enduring and vernacular expression…. “Little did she know….”
If that isn’t all encompassing of my existence… I don’t know what else could be. Yes. Little did she know… I walk the walk, and talk the talk, with that one.
In fact, I roll out of bed, each and every morning, and have the grand understanding of its impending forecast. I don’t know one thing for sure about the day ahead of me. Not one thing.
Really, it is true for all of us. Sure, we can make plans, and have appointments scheduled. We map out our moves. After waking, we can pretty much count on putting on our slippers, and making it to the restroom within the next couple of minutes…. to have our first pee of the day.
But we don’t know it for sure.
I wish we had guarantees. Assurances. But we don’t. Life is uncertain, and most-certainly ever-changing.
Which brings me to another favorite phrase. Lo and Behold.
Lo and Behold, she was on her way to the bathroom, tripped on the iPhone charging cord, and twisted her ankle. However, she was able to hobble in, and still managed a successful “first pee of the day.”
Lo and Behold is an old phrase. It has been around since the 1700s. Lo, I found out… stands for the Middle English “loke” — meaning look. So. The literal meaning of the expression is “look and see.”
Look and see. Well, that in itself is pretty profound isn’t it?
Again, that could pretty much summarize everything which happens to us…. and all that we perceive….. in the greatest spans of the entire universe. We simply have to …. look… and see.
And when you put the two together. Holy smoke-a-roley.
Little did she know….
Look.
And See.
And so, once again. There you have it…. What? I don’t know… but there it is.
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu
“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke