Busy days....evolving one into another... Days into weeks....weeks into months...and months into years. You are eighteen and wake up in your thirties. Time....faster and faster...the pendulum wound. When will it slow down?
Were we created for this? Created for the chaos? Isn't life to be celebrated...to be cherished? I look at my babies sleeping. Babies they are no longer, though to me they always will be. My oldest is nearly my height. When did that happen? She borrows by socks and occasionally my shoes. Yesterday I held her tiny body in my arms. Time......
Why is it we allow time to pass as it does? Why don't we stop and ponder things? Stop and listen....stop and acknowledge the sounds. Study the intricacies of those closest to us, those we take for granted. Why can't we take that step? What keeps us from embracing the cherished?
Expectations? Money? Education? In themselves not bad, but thieves of priority. We work...day in and day out to stay ahead. To stay ahead of the illusive....and fear, maybe? And in reality, a fear of what? Of who? Who are the Jones's anyway? And who would downsizing really hurt? A smaller home, a cheaper car.....one less degree.... Hours...time free to spend with those important to us....slowing the pendulum. And in the end, a legacy. A legacy...of love. Time well spent. A giving of ourselves...that makes another know they're worth something.
Tonight I watch my babies sleep, and I know time is short. They will only be ours to hold a numbered amount of years....then gaining their own wings. I pray I can make the most of it.
Written In Love,
Candis
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