I walked by a VON van (They are awesome mobile nurses that help tons of people) which was parked.
An elderly woman smiled and waved at me …and I smiled back. She mimicked my speed walking with her arms and was laughing. Then, she gave me the thumbs up.
I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what was going through her head.
*Was she an exercise freak back in the day?
*Was she just an eternally happy soul who loved to encourage others?
They say we learn our most valuable lessons in the last years on Earth.
It is also when you stop running.
We seem to spend our lives running.
Running from/to what? Well, that is different for everyone.
Some of us are running away from something and some of us are running to something. Those two scenarios don't seem to be the problem. The problem is when we quit running half a century before our death.
An elderly woman smiled and waved at me …and I smiled back. She mimicked my speed walking with her arms and was laughing. Then, she gave me the thumbs up.
I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what was going through her head.
*Was she an exercise freak back in the day?
*Was she just an eternally happy soul who loved to encourage others?
They say we learn our most valuable lessons in the last years on Earth.
It is also when you stop running.
We seem to spend our lives running.
Running from/to what? Well, that is different for everyone.
Some of us are running away from something and some of us are running to something. Those two scenarios don't seem to be the problem. The problem is when we quit running half a century before our death.
Each of us has something in our life we are passionate about, some of us just tend to bury the passion.
What causes that? Our own thoughts…our own worry.
We worry about two things more than anything else.
1. Money
2. Relationships
It would actually be OK if we just worried about those two things. But we obsess over them (too funny, my AutoCorrect made that, "but we have sauce over them")
I suppose we do pour sauce over them. We add worry, stress and sleepless nights. We dream of potential scenarios that pretty much never happen. We add so much stickiness to an already sweet dessert and then we make ourselves sick when we eat it.
What causes that? Our own thoughts…our own worry.
We worry about two things more than anything else.
1. Money
2. Relationships
It would actually be OK if we just worried about those two things. But we obsess over them (too funny, my AutoCorrect made that, "but we have sauce over them")
I suppose we do pour sauce over them. We add worry, stress and sleepless nights. We dream of potential scenarios that pretty much never happen. We add so much stickiness to an already sweet dessert and then we make ourselves sick when we eat it.
The terrible things in our lives make themselves known right in front of our face….like a smack to the forehead. The positive things we should be involving ourselves with seem to require gentle (OR hit-us-over-the-head-with-an-anvil style) reminders not even hourly…but by the minute!
⁃ We chase food/drugs/alcohol
⁃ We obsessively follow politics
⁃ We gossip about each other
⁃ We don't chase dreams/goals/ambitions
⁃ We don't follow positive news
⁃ We don't spend quality time with each other
WE FORGET TO PLAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
⁃ We chase food/drugs/alcohol
⁃ We obsessively follow politics
⁃ We gossip about each other
⁃ We don't chase dreams/goals/ambitions
⁃ We don't follow positive news
⁃ We don't spend quality time with each other
WE FORGET TO PLAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
I am thankful for the elderly lady in that van giving me a gentle reminder this morning to fill my day with things that matter and try to emulate the lessons she has learned 40 years before my deathbed.
Life is very precious and each of us has a choice to fill our days with things that are meaningful, loving and impactful.
I hope your day ROCKS!
Karen
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ~ J. Lennon
Life is very precious and each of us has a choice to fill our days with things that are meaningful, loving and impactful.
I hope your day ROCKS!
Karen
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ~ J. Lennon
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