Are You the Denominator or The Numerator?

First, I am no source to go to for math wisdom, so please forgive me if I speak out of turn. However as I understand it in a fraction the denominator is consistent and unchanging and the numerator is in flux. The portion of the fraction may change, but the wholeness is representative of the unchanging. My suggestion is that in your life you are the unchanging.

Everything else but you changes in life. Relationships come and go. Even the most important and precious are only for a while. Instantaneously we come to the end of any and all roads. Long careers are suddenly over. The longest and most happy of marriages are certainly worth the price, but eventually subject to loss. We lose beloved parents, and some even deal with the loss of children.

The argument can be made that even though we are the denominator that we undergo constant change. We grow old and experience the loss of capability. I remember dunking a basketball. Let’s just say that now I do not enjoy the same level of air time, and smaller jumps would require emergency personnel on hand. 

The changes that I and all of us experience change the role we play in the drama of life, but not our presence. We are present for every moment, even if altered in the process. The essential element of being. Even the world is secondary. We must be to experience anything else. 

I have been fortunate enough to be honored with supporting several people as they were in the process of preparing for transition out of this life. Two were elderly, and said almost exactly the same thing.  “I feel the same inside. I feel like I am 18 inside.” Both said this, all they way to saying the age “18.” 

This is a relationship to who we really are. We are unchanging. The body and consciousness are subject to time. Pure awareness is not. Building a zealous commitment that does not slide into becoming zealots we uncover a  single mindedness that is an inoculation to division. In our individual lives we are the denominator.