Seeking Sageship: Beyond Leadership

Seeking Sageship: Beyond Leadership

Walking Through A Place That No Longer Exists

The Odd Pull Between The Desires For Change And Nostalgia

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Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.
Sep 02, 2025
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Walking Through A Place That No Longer Exists

The Odd Pull Between The Desires For Change And Nostalgia

Everything is Different.

That is the Thought that has been going through my head the past Few Days.

I have been Working on a Path of Growth and Cultivation for so many Years Now...

And I have Plans for Greater Change in My Life Yet...

Plans that I am Excited For and Inspired By!

Yet...

I Remember things so Clearly...

As I Pass by Each Place...

A Physical Reminder of the Places that Shaped My Youth...

The City where I was Raised by My Three Mothers...

The Small Shopping Center where I Spent Years Practicing Martial Arts...

The Village Inn where I would Meet My Best Friend, Scott, after Work to Talk about Life and Faith...

All of these Places are So Dear to Me in My Heart...

Yet None of them are as I Remember...

All have Changed...

Just like Me.

The City My Mothers raised me in has Developed So Much that I can No Longer See the Open Plains of My Youth.

The Shopping Center No Longer holds the Martial Arts School that I Dedicated such a Large Part of My Life To...

The Village Inn...

Is No Longer a Village Inn...

It is Now a Gunther Toody's Diner...

That Village Inn is Gone...

Just like Scott...

Who Passed Away.

There is a Part of Me that wants so many of those Parts of My Life Back...

The Memories are So Powerful...

Yet...

I Know this too...

My Life has Improved in Many Ways since those Days.

There are things in My Life Today I would Never have Dreamed Possible...

I would Not Trade My Life for Anything Different...

As I Look Toward the Future and What is Being Made Possible with the Changes that have Improved My Life.

I have Come So Far...

And I Still have So Much More to Accomplish...

Goals to Achieve...

Places to Explore...

Lives to Change...

I have Not Finished Growing and Cultivating Myself...

And I Hope that I Never Do.

Yet, Here I Stand...

Walking a Strange Line Between My Past and My Future...

Where the Past is Here...

Yet Completely Different from Everything I Remember...

A Physical Reminder that Everything Changes...

And Yes, the Nostalgia of the Past is Meaningful...

But Even the Past in Our Memories is Not Truly the Past We Experienced...

Just like Everything I See Now as I Walk Toward Whatever the Future May Hold...


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Memories are a Strange Thing…

They can Keep Us Grounded…

Teach us Wisdom…

But they can Also Keep Us Trapped.

Nostalgia in Particular is Fascinating…

We Seek Aspects of the Past…

But Usually See the Past through Rose Tinted Glasses.

So Focused on Today’s Stressors…

That We Forget the Stressors of Our Past.

But this Does Not Mean that Nostalgia is Bad…

It can be Extremely Beneficial.

So, How Do We Go About Walking this Line?

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