parting note

as a parting note: there are many voices speaking from inside of us. there is the voice of our parents, the voice of our teachers, the voice of our spouse and the voice of our children. there voices speaking from the past in the shape of our ancestors; they speak through our parents, and through our parents parents and so on it goes forever. there are voices from the media and the government, from doctors and friends and the list goes on and on. but there is one voice that is all so important and that voice is us. it is at times the hardest voice to hear. regardless if due to the noise from these other speakers or the fear of hearing what our own voice is telling us or because we have forgotten what this voice sounds like and we cannot recognize it any more – it is the one true voice that matters in the end…i can only say that after so many years, i am at last not only hearing this voice clearly again, but am back to acting upon it. and it feels great.