January 23, 2009
Enjoy Life
Try to Relax and Enjoy The Life That You’ve Been Given
Perhaps what we should slow down so that we have time to enjoy the lives we have; however it comes to us. Being too busy to enjoy life is becoming a bigger problem in our bustling society today.
The faster we go after the things in life that we think we need and want, the more details we are likely to miss and the more mistakes we are likely to make. So we need to just slow down before we do something that cannot be undone.
When doing things in haste, we often miss the steps we need to make in order for us to function best. It’s much like creating strong mortar that keeps the building blocks of our lives in place. We cannot afford to take the risk of creating weak mortar in our life’s building blocks and then see everything that has value come crashing down around us.
We need to take time to smell the roses, to notice the shapes of clouds in the sky, to notice the colors of flowers along the freeway, and to pay attention to the activities of our children. We need to notice how quickly they grow up. How long has it been that you last noticed their personalities? Have you noticed that they are starting to develop an interesting personality or it has been developed for quite some time but you haven’t even noticed?
Take the time to notice all the good things our spouses do for us. Try to remember what we love about them, and how glad we are that we married them. Then the spouses should tell each other how they feel.
We need to stop thinking about all the things we have to do today or tomorrow and just enjoy doing things in the moment. We really need to live our lives more in the moment and just enjoy the blessing of living today!
Of course there are things we need to take seriously, and that we need to keep on top of , but we also need time to relax and play. All work and no play will put a man or woman in the sickbed, in the hospital bed, or worse, in the grave. In other words, we probably need to tap into our playful side more often than we do, like I am doing right now by writing this blog.
If we have trouble letting down our hair and relaxing as we should, we neeed find someone with whom we can share an activity. Who do we know that can help us be more playful and exercise that light-hearted side of our nature? We need to go out and have fun with a friend, rather than doing things alone. Going solo isn’t much fun and eventually grows tiresome and lonely. We cannot let this happen to us. If it already has, then perhaps we need to change something and do things differently.
It is my desire that you find a way to spark up your life through activities that you enjoy. Try to play more when you need to, and to relax when you notice you are getting too intense.
