When we are young we need to be seen, validated, built up so that when the time comes that we fall hard, we’ve had such a solid foundation that it doesn’t kill us.

Then, when we’re old(er), we come to a point that we no longer need to be seen because we know that we are seen, infinitely, constantly, by a power greater than ourselves. It is at that point, because we do not require being seen, that we can finally see — see, admire, delight in, reward, honor, and bless everything around us.

I don’t know when that happens. At 30 years old? 40? 55? Gotta get through those teen years and our 20s. Very little in those years can bring us to our knees in despair.. Things hurt after 30, like lower backs and loss.