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Living in the moment1/8/2024 My mind gives the future and the past too much space. It wanders over to what the neighbors are doing. It reminds me of what I have yet to accomplish. It wants to speed up time, and it plows right through those moments to be amazed by. It confuses busy with important, urgent with significant, and difficulty with meaning. It snatches the joy right out of my hands. My mind can be the most hardened criminal against my own happiness. I set a reminder in my calendar. I made a post-it. I wrote it down in my journal. “Be amazed,” I scrawled as fast as I could on the first piece of paper I found when we got home. I repeated it to myself the way you do a telephone number. I was not going to let this fade from my memory to be overtaken by another thousand concerns. She didn’t mind that her clothes didn’t match because she picked out exactly what she likes. She didn’t care about how many calories we burned on our walk. She didn’t care if I sent out that attachment with that email. Sometimes I wish I could be a little more like her. There were at least a thousand other concerns competing for my attention while she was content to watch ants on the sidewalk. I have never looked at a garbage can and called it amazing (at least not since I was four). This perfect dog is the same one that I complain about to my husband. I was thankful for another spring day before the summer heat, and I was enjoying this rare one-on-one time with her.īut I had no idea that the neighbors had wind chimes. She was so amazed by things that I never notice or worse, complain about. Her commentary on the walk went exactly like this: She schooled me in everything I have been working so hard on, and she wasn’t even trying. Like I said, I was feeling pretty proud of my progress. “I’m going to be totally present,” I reminded myself as we headed out. I took deep breath and said a silent thanks for the beautiful day. I was feeling pretty good about my progress yesterday when I decided to take said four-year-old on a walk rather than rushing through the to-do list burning a hole in the back of my mind. ![]() I’ve been working hard on this, actually, keeping a gratitude journal and everything. Just when you think you have the whole living in the moment thing down, a four-year-old comes along and shows you how it’s done. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein “There are only two ways to live your life.
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