Simply Living

I’ve been thinking about how quickly life passes by.  To think that more than 40 years has gone by since I became an adult astonishes me.  I consider the quality of those 40 years and find myself shaking my head in disappointment.  Oh to be a shining star with a fiery flame of accomplishment at my tail giving the illusion of a comet.  But then I consider a bit more and realize that this is the stuff of life, working for a living.  What do I mean?

       There is a quiet sort of dignity in working for a living and the vast majority of individuals are The People.  We are the ones who make the buses go, who keep the electricity and heat flowing, who grow the food and raises the cattle and keep civilization on track.  We obey the laws, pay our bills, pay the taxes due and thus support the proper working of the machinery we call Life.  We working people have a fortitude that allows us to get up at impossible times of the day, make a commute under sometimes nearly outrageous conditions, punch the figurative clock and then do our work.  Then we take the long trek home again, be it by sitting in the car in rush hour traffic or being jammed into a bus oftentimes “standing room only”.  Once home we have our household duties to complete, including caring for our offspring.  In these few hours we can bring the quality up a notch, or not.

       So I have been thinking about the way we approach our lives and wonder “are we enjoying every minute of every day, despite the work?”  The likelihood that the pattern of our lives will change is very slim so the key message here is to be certain that you are truly enjoying your life, on a daily basis, despite the hardships. 

Because This Is It.