When Life Slows You Down

Six thirty AM and it's time to wake up
Seven AM I have a call related to work
Eight thirty and the cleaner is here
Nine AM make breakfast
Nine thirty ensure everyone is dressed and ready to face the day
Ten AM is the music class
Eleven AM I have to drive back
Twelve thirty is the dance lesson

Oh my God! it's already two thirty and I have to be at a birthday.

Six PM I have a call to make

In between all this, there is the homework from various classes, work issues, home front issues - plumbing to groceries to ants on the stairs, neighbours problems, emotional angel and issues for the family, health of all people around, and the general PR that needs to done with all we deal with...

Ten thirty and I'm still working -every inch in my body aches...

If this routine happens on a weekend, where will I end up? I have forgotten even to smile maybe :-(

This is the basic minimum a parent today can do. And if one is a woman and working on top of it, God save her :-)

I'm sure all of our lives are consumed and we are all in the rut. Running ...after something.

But, like I posted in my last posting on this blog - a mindless routine offers solace too at times. That comfort enjoyed, there is more to life than that - do you agree?

I always had ideas of the various things I want to do growing up and after having reached a point in life - my charter is undone. And today, the only excuse I have is that I run out of time.

I also on the other hand realize - I just have to try and drop dead in my tracks. That's the only way to slow down. And good or bad, I had the first hand experience that life goes on.

Nobody or nothing will stop for you - that's the bitter truth of life.

So, slow down...enjoy this moment...this is the only thing that belongs to you...and the only thing that you have an influence upon. To make it better or worse - everything else is on cruise control...and will go on no matter what.

Breathe....and let go...and live NOW. Just this moment....

When Life slows you down...slow down for Life!