Last year...and maybe even many of the years before I spent all my time hurrying up to get to the next thing. When I was at work I would wish that it would hurry up and get over so that I could be home. When I was home I would wish that I could hurry and finish whatever chore I was working on so I could rest...or move on to the next thing. When I was at church i would find my mind wandering and wondering what we were going to do after church was over...a nap? what would we have for Dinner? Should we go to my parents house? Then I would find myself wishing that it would hurry and be over so I can get on with the afternoon. Then it was on to hurry up and get ready for bed cause I have to get ready for work tomorrow. See that pattern? I was wishing my life away...
It was sometime last year that I realized that what my Mom has been saying for all my life is true... ENJOY THE JOURNEY...
So that is when I decided...well sometime last year I decided that I need to start LIVING my life. Really living my life. WHERE I am...WHEN I am...enjoy my life. So this year...I don't rush out of meetings at school. I try to get out of my classroom and visit with the teachers around me. Not that I didn't do that before...but really...I didn't do it much...but this year my goal is to visit more. Enjoy my job more. Enjoy the time I have with my students more.
Hey maybe that is why I am enjoying this year more. I am living each day and not wishing it away. In the afternoons on the way home from work and at night before bed I ask myself...Did you LIVE today or just let it pass by waiting for the next thing. Now don't get me wrong, I still go to bed early on school nights...and I still pout a little bit when the EARLY alarm goes off in the morning...but I am IN IT...I live that moment in the morning with the alarm. HAHA...well ok THAT moment is more complaining about mornings but AFTER THAT I am IN IT. When I am with my students I am with them and living it. When I am with my friends I am WITH THEM...not thinking of all the other things I should be doing. I don't choose not to do something because I am tired. I want to live my life and enjoy it...not sleep or wish it away.
This is a grande time and I am happy to be here and be IN IT.
And now I close my rambling...I have enjoyed BEING with you while you read it. :)
1 comment:
I love it - I have been trying to do that lately too. After spending a month being a big angry Beastie and being negative and unhappy with everything. I realized I needed to get over myself and enjoy what I got.
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