Food for thought

Monday already! Time flies with all the ongoing festivities.

I woke up with a crazy thought in my head. A verse that seemed to have been embedded in me since childhood: "do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself." It stayed with me throughout the day. I asked a friend what they thought about it... Did they believe it? Was it true? I felt confused by it. Can life really be so simple that if we only took life one day at a time, everything might fall into place? hmmm.

But stranger too, I hadn't heard said verse in years. Since just after infanthood, really. I do believe that timing is everything. So why now? What caused me to wake up with these words in my head? Ironically, I have been focusing more on intention. Putting as much intention as possible into whatever it is I am doing without thinking so much about the "what ifs", "maybes", and "whys." Focusing on quality instead of quantity. It seems as though even the smallest things in life have meaning, if only I can search hard enough to find them. But also if I can keep myself in balance, and understand how I need to be, and where I need to be that type of way. One of the biggest things I'd like to be more, is patient, or maybe just a little bit more slow. I know I've talked about my feelings of anxiousness in previous posts, and feeling like I'm not producing as fast or quickly as I feel I should be, but lately all I really want to do is pinpoint where this excessive pressure to mass produce is coming from. What is the rush? Why so serious? I'd hate to think I was in such a rush to get to whereever I'm going that I missed a key detail amongst the small things along the way.

In conclusion about the verse, I think I will. I will be challenging myself to try to live more in a daily state of gratitude, understanding how much attention I must give to the details and the small things, which in turn bring together my vision of life, as a whole. It's exciting to think I can look to the things I might not have otherwise recognised, and look to find suprises and secrets inside them. Who will I say hello to, that I would not have had the time of day to recognise otherwise, tomorrow? Who will I smile at, who otherwise, might have perceived me as upset or annoyed? Who will I hold the door for, when I would have otherwise been to busy to wait for anyone else to walk through, except myself? How will this increase my quality of life? Even without starting this challenge, I am already feeling the positivity of living in detail. I look forward to trying to make time for more, embrace more, care more, and most of all, love more. I look forward to it all.

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