February 1 Already
1Feb2010 Filed under: Personal Author: Michelle Krier
As we start the second month of the year, I’m amazed at how quickly time continues to pass. My older son turns 3 on Saturday and I wonder how he got to be 3 already. Seems like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital to a half packed up house as we moved 3 weeks later. Every weekday it seems like I race around, anxious to get to the weekend to spend more time with my family. I feel like I’m always counting down to that next big event (Joshua’s birthday party this Saturday), the next vacation (not planned at this point), warmer weather (not coming soon enough), etc. Have we as a society become so conditioned to work toward that next deadline or event that we’re not content to simply relish the here and now? And is that healthy? It seems like all of us are driving for more, better, faster but what does that get us in the end? With contant focus on the next event are we enjoying the time in between at all?
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Vicky
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:18 am
Circa 2005, I had a particularly busy work schedule. One morning I was walking the dogs and looking up at the mountains on the horizon and I thought about how I didn’t even have time to appreciate the mountains.
And then I realized— I *was* appreciating them! Even if I wasn’t hiking them, by gawking longingly at the ridgelines, I was taking the few precious moments I had at that time to enjoy the scenery they had to offer.
So I think that was an example of the “more, better, faster” trap you spoke of. I was so fixated on the big events– the adventures and the epic hikes– that I was missing the beauty I could obtain right then and there from my front yard.