No Time For Patience
On Wednesday night, I went into my 3 year-old daughter's room after she fell asleep. I sat on the floor near her bed and watched her for a few minutes. Sleeping in her soft pink pajamas, she looked like a little angel. Her face and plume of red hair stuck up out of the blanket, and she snored ever so slightly. As I sat there, I realized that everything that I needed in this world was already within my house. I didn't need tomorrow or the next day, I only needed the present.
With this realization, I became aware that I need to learn how to enjoy the process of waiting. I am an impatient person by nature and feel restless until I obtain my goals.
While people commonly say that we need to take time to "smell the roses", how many of us really do this on a consistent basis?
How many of us can truly enjoy the journey before we have reached the destination?
9 Comments:
I agree with the importance of enjoying the journey - I think the process is often as important as the goal, it is just hard to remember that sometimes. And sometimes, we get so distracted on our journey, that we never reach our initial destination, but we find so much on the way.
Shoshana: Thank you for your comment. It is comforting to know that someone else out there shares these views as well.
I am just blown away by how you are able to take something beautiful and meaningful from every seemingly everyday situation and learn something from it. Fantastic.
Thanks MCAryeh. I guess when you know you don't have material for a posting the next day it gets the mind working.
Coming up with new blog material can be a real challenge. Somedays I just feel like someone hit the pause botton on my brain. Thats why I tend to write my postings a day in advance (today I am writing Monday's posting)
You are so right....life is more about the journey than the destination.
Good Shabbos, ASJ.
That's a very smart way to go about posting, ASJ. Maybe I will try that too...shavua tov!
Dear ASJ,
My daughter, now 25 years old and a recent graduate of the Washington University School of Law, was once a mini-prima ballerina who'd prance up and down our driveway while I sang to her the silliest of songs ... she had red hair, round and rosy cheeks like a cherub and I'd fix her hair in the fashion of Pebbles, put both her and Ben in a red wagon, and schlepp them about the neighborhood so that all should see my beautiful babies. So ... you are indeed right ... savor every moment!! I remain ...
Sincerely yours,
Alan D. Busch
Great thought!! just hard to apply in ones daily busy routine.
You made me watch my kids sleep last night, and indeed a house full of angels..
Moochy: It is rewarding to know that my words have impact on others. Thanks for the comment.
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