Just wondering, in your day to day, if something changed your vision of life,
what wouldn't be a big deal anymore.
Wonder for a second, that there was an interruption of sorts.
A test you had to get done was getting reviewed.
You didn't get the call yet, and you're waiting, and waiting, and waiting....
Would your outlook on life be the same? Would it waver?
What kind of things would you be saying to yourself?
How would the colors of the trees or the smell of your grille be that day?
Stronger, brighter, any better?
Would your children's smiles seem bigger, better than normal, because
you are looking
at them with an unsure future for yourself?
So often, life is passing at the speed of light.
We are bombarded with the news, stories, articles....
All claiming to have what's important for you to do-
Get your finances together, get your credit up to par, buy the home of your dreams.
But what about the life of your dreams?
The day to day things that actually count when your shut your front door?
What about remembering what all of this really is for?
What about reminding people, along with not
living for the past,
to not wait for the future, to live either.
Within this capsule of "the now", we are cleaning, and running, and working..
We are paying bills, and running place to place-
thinking, tomorrow-tomorrow-tomorrow....
A naive "guarantee" that yeah, we may not be here at 95,
but we
have a whole lotta life left.
Yet, with each day, comes another loss of someone young, old or
middle aged, taken, without warning.
Today is all we have promised.
If you woke up today, you got another try, another run at things~
But remember, this time, in limbo, waiting for your news.
Would the words, when the Dr called, change who you are?
Yes, it may change your lifestyle, but
would it change what you choose to do with your days?
Who you love? How you show it?
Would it make you finally take a vacation, or tell your
spouse exactly what he
or she truly means to you?
We can hop scotch through, until ten pm every day, and not
think about things, til our head
hits our pillow.
We can run on auto pilot, hugging our daughters, or wrestling our sons.
Make dinner as we eat on the way out to the car.
Or finally get to our beach getaway, and check into Facebook on
our cells, eight times, while
everyone else jumps waves.
But after your results were spoken, wouldn't all this time to embrace,
feel like double the blessing?
If you don't already, try and take a day, to wake up like your phone is about to ring.
The voice on the other line could be a relief, but it could also
limit your future, with everything you ever knew.
What wouldn't be a big deal anymore? The mess?
The trip to Acme?
The way your husband puts his feet on you during the Phillies game?
Wouldn't so much feel like a waste of complaining about?
And so much more, feel like you're a real life lottery winner?
Keep that idea going, and see where it takes you-
How you see things,
and if anything alters itself, to make your world even more beautiful.
Not only may it change what your life looks like,
it could possibly, change your whole outlook on life.
Hugs!
