Banged up Battered and Bruised
My goodness life can be fast paced at times, wouldn't you agree? Over the last few days fighting crowds and schedules I feel banged up battered and bruised. Where, how, and why did life get so darn busy. It seems to me like most of us are going wide open trying to get to six places at one time. That sure as heck makes for a bad attitude when something does not go as planned and how can it when we overbook our time almost daily.
You probably recognize something in your life that sounds like what I just wrote. We struggle to remove things that add to our lives being out of control yet we seem to welcome adding more to our already stretched schedule. I find it rather interesting that when our time is oversold and things go wrong we find ourselves blaming others for not doing their part, BUT guess what they are just as overbooked as you and I.
Life has a weird way of slowing us down. Health problems, financial issues, life crisis, the death of a loved on, etc. Any one of these things can trump whatever you have on your filled to the brim calender. God and circumstances can stop you dead in your tracks. Most of you know what I mean.
Recently I spoke to a woman that had her life on full throttle. She was blowing and going ninety to nothing and barely waving at people as she passed. Life was wired to the max and she was loving all the pressure even though she had lost time for family and friends. In her eyes they just did not understand all that she had to do. That all came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now at age 50 with a prognosis of a few months she wanted to slow down and meet, greet, and love all the people she passed on the highway to hell as she called it.
The lenses we view life through are not the way life really is. The person we pass along the way at speeds that make us miss the emotion because all we saw is the color could very well be the person whose life was just changed as this ladies was. I know it is difficult to slow the roller coaster of life on our own but trust me when I say it will slow down and when it does it may come to an abrupt halt. I remember all the years my son raced one of the rules was that sometimes you have to slow down to speed up. Take that to heart in life. Stop the insanity that makes you miss the smile on someone's face or tear in their eyes. There will come a time when your race slows to a crawl and you will need the people you blew by. I think if we want to get a grip on the crazy banged up battered and bruised lives we live we must stop and smell the roses. People need you as much as you need them.
Hey you, yes you, STOP you are missing your life because you are to dang busy living someone else s version of the way they think you should be living. Take a deep breath and get control. Remember a life of peace is a life. Oh one more thing, when you slow down enough to see the world around you the dreams you now think or impossible will have a chance at becoming real.
Join the movement to gain control of our lives and together we will all find a way to help those around us smile again.
peace to you
Dale
You probably recognize something in your life that sounds like what I just wrote. We struggle to remove things that add to our lives being out of control yet we seem to welcome adding more to our already stretched schedule. I find it rather interesting that when our time is oversold and things go wrong we find ourselves blaming others for not doing their part, BUT guess what they are just as overbooked as you and I.
Life has a weird way of slowing us down. Health problems, financial issues, life crisis, the death of a loved on, etc. Any one of these things can trump whatever you have on your filled to the brim calender. God and circumstances can stop you dead in your tracks. Most of you know what I mean.
Recently I spoke to a woman that had her life on full throttle. She was blowing and going ninety to nothing and barely waving at people as she passed. Life was wired to the max and she was loving all the pressure even though she had lost time for family and friends. In her eyes they just did not understand all that she had to do. That all came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now at age 50 with a prognosis of a few months she wanted to slow down and meet, greet, and love all the people she passed on the highway to hell as she called it.
The lenses we view life through are not the way life really is. The person we pass along the way at speeds that make us miss the emotion because all we saw is the color could very well be the person whose life was just changed as this ladies was. I know it is difficult to slow the roller coaster of life on our own but trust me when I say it will slow down and when it does it may come to an abrupt halt. I remember all the years my son raced one of the rules was that sometimes you have to slow down to speed up. Take that to heart in life. Stop the insanity that makes you miss the smile on someone's face or tear in their eyes. There will come a time when your race slows to a crawl and you will need the people you blew by. I think if we want to get a grip on the crazy banged up battered and bruised lives we live we must stop and smell the roses. People need you as much as you need them.
Hey you, yes you, STOP you are missing your life because you are to dang busy living someone else s version of the way they think you should be living. Take a deep breath and get control. Remember a life of peace is a life. Oh one more thing, when you slow down enough to see the world around you the dreams you now think or impossible will have a chance at becoming real.
Join the movement to gain control of our lives and together we will all find a way to help those around us smile again.
peace to you
Dale
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