“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
...i probably have written a blog or two about this very topic...life being so precious, making every minute count, realizing what you have in front of you instead of what lies behind you or ahead of you; being in the moment of now...maybe the older i get the more i realize this, i look around and think what happened to last month, or i see my nieces and nephews and cannot believe how much they have grown; or i see people that i have looked up to and how their lives have changed...or just how much my life has changed as i get older...no, i was not sitting at my desk looking out the window at the rain, & started to think about my life and how i can't remember the days when i did nothing and had not a care in the world, and then i decided to write a blog and subject you all to, "ohh how time flies, and blah, blah..." nah, well maybe a little;), or maybe it allows you to take a moment and be in your life when everything else is passing you by...
...kenny chesney (yeah yeah i know not everyone is a fan of country) but he actually has 2 songs that refer to this topic...take a moment and just listen...don't blink or the good stuff
...i want to take you back...think about what has happened over the course of your lifetime; you were a kid, you played in the hot summer days and did not come in the house until the street lights came on, all the kids in the neighborhood played kickball or bloody murder, life could not get any better than that, and then in a blink of an eye, you are in high school, going to dances, and parties, getting your drivers license, crushing over and over and maybe falling in like, and then you graduate, and move on to college where you are the ruler of your world, no one tells you when to show up to class or how/when you get to hang out with your friends, you wake up when you want to, shower when you want to go, eat what you want to, take naps as often as you want, go to the bar on a Monday or Tuesday just because; it is complete freedom and eventually you realize you have to decide what you want to be when you grow up & graduate; then you move into the real real world, where you have to pay for things you never knew were paid for, and you get a job, maybe a house if you are real big kid, and maybe get married, have some kids, or not, but you are living in this adult world...and all of sudden you stop and think what happened, i was just 12, riding my bike, or going to the prom, or raging it in college....you never stopped moving and life moved with you to bring you to this place, to this point in your life...
...and now the minutes turn into hours, into days, into months, into years & there you are thinking time stops for no one, yesterday was the year 2000 and now it is 2014 (like who ever thought they would see 20??; i remember people saying earth was imploding in the year 2000; i hope no one bet the house on that one;)...no matter how much you want the moment to pass you by or to hold onto it, it is gone before you know it....maybe that is why this topic is one i tend to revisit so often, why i am obsessed with time or rather the idea of the absence of time...if you know me at all i hate time; it puts so many restraints on living (there is also the fact that i am always late;)...to be without time would make moments last indefinitely...the moments that take our breath away, that make us smile, that make us laugh til our bellies hurts, that even make us cry, that humble us, that allow us to believe and hope...the moments that inspire us, the moments that change us and give us a new meaning...moments that will never and could never be replicated even if we tried; that is why we don't want to let them go...however; i know that is not how God intended it, He wanted us to move forward in time, He wanted us to learn, and realize that life can and will get so much better than what we already think is the greatest moment of our lives...He didn't want us to stay in that moment because if we did, then we would be stuck and nothing would ever grow, & there we would be, just seeds in the ground rather than a tree with branches...we often forget the moments that are no longer there actually provide the solid base for the branches to grow and leaves to change...
...so BE in every moment, stop and SMELL the smells surround you, SEE all that you can see, TAKE in all that your memory can hold, LOVE beyond your hearts capacity, BELIEVE in not just the possibilities, but the impossibilities...do it all and don't wait because before you know it there will be no more time to wait...
