The older I get the more I realize
how the hours slip by unnoticed, and the days just don't feel as long as they
once were, by the time you get home and eat dinner and shower you are too
exhausted to even pick up a book and read.
It wasn't long ago that I noticed how beautiful the sky and sunsets are every day, and that I’ve been way too caught up in the whirlwind of my life to stop and appreciate the beauty; instead I had been miserable day after day sitting in traffic, stressed to arrive at my next destination. Have you ever noticed how mesmerizing the sky is, and how captivating the sunsets are? Every single day the sky’s colors change surprising us with something more incredible than the day before.
In this day and era it seems like life is a race. Everything is fast; there's fast food, the fast lane, cellphones. Everybody is in a hurry to get to work, then while at work in a hurry to finish so that they can go home, everyone lives for the weekend, on Monday they are counting down until Friday; and then you wonder why time is flying by.
We are always on the go, don't look back just look forward; appointment books and day planners filled, late for this, late for that, always on the run, reminding yourself to breathe once in a while.
Ferris Bueller was right when he said "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Today, stop and look at the beautiful, wonderful world around you. Watch people. Look at the wind blowing through the leaves. See the look on faces as they sing or play or laugh or enjoy an ice-cream. Look into eyes; see the way eyes communicate without words. Look at the sky and it’s beautiful ever changing colors.
This past July 4th there was a fatal boat accident in Miami, Florida; the accident took the lives of four extremely young individuals, one happened to be a classmates from high school's little sister, she was only 24 years old; the others were 20 and 23. I'm pretty sure those four young lives didn't think when they woke up that morning that it was their last day on earth, I am also sure that they wish they would give anything just to have one more day to look around and say their goodbyes. Tomorrow is never promised, so make it a point to stop and look around once in a while.
Today, I stopped and looked at the sunset and as I do every single day, I fell in love with the sky all over again.
It wasn't long ago that I noticed how beautiful the sky and sunsets are every day, and that I’ve been way too caught up in the whirlwind of my life to stop and appreciate the beauty; instead I had been miserable day after day sitting in traffic, stressed to arrive at my next destination. Have you ever noticed how mesmerizing the sky is, and how captivating the sunsets are? Every single day the sky’s colors change surprising us with something more incredible than the day before.
In this day and era it seems like life is a race. Everything is fast; there's fast food, the fast lane, cellphones. Everybody is in a hurry to get to work, then while at work in a hurry to finish so that they can go home, everyone lives for the weekend, on Monday they are counting down until Friday; and then you wonder why time is flying by.
We are always on the go, don't look back just look forward; appointment books and day planners filled, late for this, late for that, always on the run, reminding yourself to breathe once in a while.
Ferris Bueller was right when he said "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Today, stop and look at the beautiful, wonderful world around you. Watch people. Look at the wind blowing through the leaves. See the look on faces as they sing or play or laugh or enjoy an ice-cream. Look into eyes; see the way eyes communicate without words. Look at the sky and it’s beautiful ever changing colors.
This past July 4th there was a fatal boat accident in Miami, Florida; the accident took the lives of four extremely young individuals, one happened to be a classmates from high school's little sister, she was only 24 years old; the others were 20 and 23. I'm pretty sure those four young lives didn't think when they woke up that morning that it was their last day on earth, I am also sure that they wish they would give anything just to have one more day to look around and say their goodbyes. Tomorrow is never promised, so make it a point to stop and look around once in a while.
Today, I stopped and looked at the sunset and as I do every single day, I fell in love with the sky all over again.
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