Are we all moving too fast in life? Are we constantly missing out on things that are passing us by?
I know I am.Yet I can’t help it.
Everyday, I want it to end faster thinking in some miraculous way if time moves rapidly I could achieve what I want.
More than often I have a battle with myself. I say, “My Anh just relax. Take your time, you don’t need to rush yourself.” After that I would go grab a book, read it and I feel a lot better. However, the next day the same problem arise. In my mind I continue to think that I’m not doing anything productive, I’m not getting anything done. I must do something, I have to run, run really fast so that I could reach toward the future I am aiming for.
But I know that the present also counts, it matters as well.
Do you ever get yourself stuck in a situation similar to this? Where you know what you should do but you can’t fix yourself, you just go on making the same error knowingly.
As I always believe, your worst enemy tends to be yourself.
Though I have to thank my nieces and nephew for being with me. Their presence reminds me to really appreciate what is currently in my life at the moment. Watching them play around, surrounding me, I often wonder how long will this last? When will they grow up and start to go out with their own friends, no longer wanting to have me with them? So I would stop trying to race with time. I would sit down, stand up, jump about and sing aloud with them–simply enjoying the moments that I’ll have them to myself.
Amazing isn’t it? Children teaches us a lot of lessons in life and I never treat them like a child. Therefore, I detest it when adults think that they have the right to control or have the better knowledge than younger children. You never know when they will turn around and say such an innocent remark that hits you right on the spot of certainty.
I’m hoping with the help of my nieces and nephew, I’ll be able to not drive myself way too fast.
I’ll pause whatever I’m doing, thinking or planning so that they wouldn’t change too rapidly until I can’t recall anything about our time together.
That’s my promise to them, the precious jewels in my life.
