NO TIME TO SMELL THE ROSES!

Have you caught yourself making resolutions to yourself lately - something like: I shall get back to painting or playing the guitar, I shall do something to be fit and in shape - yoga or walks, I must get those things for the house or do something about my hair - I need a trim!!! I can go on about this!

All these thoughts keep flitting through the mind. They occur at the moment and leave the mind as soon as something more pressing albeit more routine takes over the mind... these threads are then forgotten till something else triggers their memory again.

I have been thinking about this lately and have realised that the majority of my time is spent in doing regular routine things which need to be done repeatedly perhaps day in and day out - week after week. Although this work is important it is not something that enriches my life experience. At times I wonder will the best years of my life pass in this fashion alone. It will be so sad if I come to the fag end of my life - with lots of time to kill and maybe little fitness or energy or health to now do the things which I really want to do - the little things of pleasure! I hope not!

I hope that however, busy I might be, I will always be able to take the time out to open my window and doors when it rains and simply watch the droplets fall on the leaves and my hands. That I will always savour the first cup of tea of the day - no matter how rushed I might be. That I will luxuriate in gay abandon at the beauty of my child and the love I feel for her when she snuggles up to me or says something endearing. That I will appreciate how my love looks at me with love or the way the corners of his eyes crinkle - behind the spectacles - when he laughs! That I will always have the time to pick up the phone and talk to my parents and listen to what they have been upto lately!

I hope I never forget how fabulous it feels to stop and smell the roses on a busy day!