renewal

my motto today: Keep feeling new things.

Not keep feeling the same things. There is no continuation of feelings. There can be renewal, but feelings do not hold still.
I don't stay in love with my husband. I love him every day so far, but each day it is a new love, a different love. I am a different person, he is a different person. The more I can see him as he is today, the more I can love him with an accurate love.

There is no stability in emotions. Emotions are fleeting. We can feel love again and again, but it is a changing, growing process. Never stable.

Software is like this too. Some people like to think we write an application and it is done. It can serve the users' needs for years to come. It doesn't work like that - when development ceases on an application, when we stop updating and improving the UI and refactoring the code, that app becomes stale and hateful. The users' needs change, their expectations rise, and the hatred of PeopleSoft grows in their hearts. Meanwhile the code becomes legacy, residing in no developer's head, losing readability as software engineering standards advance.

So it is with feelings. We have Love 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 2.0...
Feelings never stay the same. That's like asking a favorite swimming hole to keep the same water in it. We are constantly under development. Keep feeling new things.