Slow down

I stood with a great rat race looming over me for many years. I have come to know that life is actually better when you slow down. Yes activities are grand. Being able to say you accomplished this and that, even more power to you. Yet when you stop and forgo an active day, reflecting upon yourself, you find a different level of mindfulness. 

I have tried so hard to explain to people not to allow a tragedy help wake them up. Yet I am finding more and more people are doing that. Even more so are that people are so busy with activities that they forget moments of family. 

Perhaps I am not a fine one to speak of this. Yet I know, now, that family is important. Perhaps not everyone thinks that constant go go go is impending on family time yet it is. This constant need to be involved in something makes us all forget sometimes the better parts of life is the slow, low grind days. 

Yet even when I try to explain this to people, family, all they can say is that I need to do this or that. And all I say is do you really NEED to do those things? Can you live one or two more days without doing them? How do these activities benefit you in your later years? 

And all I am really doing is knocking my head on a brick wall. Perhaps I am just different. I have been in a go go go mode before but when you get slammed in accidents, let downs and even tragedy, makes you wonder was all that fuss really worth today? Your time? Your breath? 

As you ponder this thought, ever just sit on the edge of your bed, step or stand against a wall and slow down? What cost is the moment of silence or drumming of a song in your ears? What travesty would it be if you were to just say no I am not going to do all these activities today? That you are going to stay home and unwind. Even more so when was the last time you played games with your children or family? How did your imagination or storytelling adventures go?

Would it be so hard to just stop for a moment? Three minutes of calm in the craziness of a busy world. So what would you start with today?

I began with my walk in the rain. Pouring down upon me. I enjoyed baking a pie from scratch with my family. Today I am just enjoying a grand bit of imagination through a good book and laughter of memories. 

How did you begin?