I have noticed as I get older the faster life passes me by. I have also noticed that I am far from being alone in this reality. Humanity as a whole feels more often than not that our lives instead of a beautiful, sacred gift, is more of a time bomb and before we realize it the timer declares ten seconds and of course we are left in complete and utter regret of things that could have been. If you think about (and if you are a pretty average person), half of our lives is spent asleep. This depresses me because as a human I have to sleep, so its inevitable to go around it so i can live a much more filled and longer life. Then I heard on television (what else), that an average person spends as much time on vacation as they do going to the bathroom. When I heard this, i thought "I have been on only a couple vacations throughout my life". Therefore if half my life is spent asleep and another part is spent going to the bathroom, that only leaves 1/3 or less of my life to really do what I want and truly live life to its fullest. I became very depressed.
However, right now I am sitting in my car and staring out the window. Its abotr a quarter till nine and the moon is just rising above the horizon. I think it odd that if I stare at it for a long period of time, I can never see it physically move. However, if I look away and come back to it in like five minutes or so, it has clearly moved and suprinsgly quicker than I had previously imagined. My question to you is how come we feel like life rushes past us without warning of abandonment, but yet the moon moves slowly to its rightful place? Life often seems so filled with noise and commotion, but yet the moon moves in complete silence. When I look at this orange, opacque moon I don't see a ticking bomb or any kind of commotion or lethal weapon. I see peace and hope. If only I could find that kind of peace and hope for myself in my 1/3 of a lifespan.
I often feel like life is always running ahead of me and it never calls back to me to take a jump forward to catch up. Rather I am constantly catching my breath in attempt to reach something that may not even matter, but I wouldn't want to miss it nonetheless. I guess its time to give up my point to all of this rambling on. Life is so dear to me and I do perceive it as a gift from God. I want to reach out to my readers and challenge them that througout your busy lives take five mintues and watch the sun set. Or take five mintues and walk outside and breath in the fresh air and allow your ears to search for silence. Take five mintues and look around your family, take in their faces and expressions, and say a prayer of thanks for each of them for somehow, some way they provide some sort of hapiness into your life, but mostly they give and receive your love no matter what. Take five mintues to turn off the tv and your cell phone and take a breath and notice how your feeling inside. Take five mintues and truly love deeply, but most of all take five minutes and enjoy the life you have been given. You only get one and we are all allowed some happiness and some tranquilty in our lives.
Five minutes may not seem like a lot to change your whole perception of life, but if you only had five more minutes on your ticking bomb, those minutes, those seconds could feel like days. Nonetheless they will soon run out. When the explosion hits, make sure that moment was in silence, peace, and if anything providing you hope for all your worries and expectations that lie in your future.
