This is the perfect holiday (just food, drink, and naps!) to slow down and reflect on how quickly Life is passing and to take a step back and think about our lives. It is important that we not become so busy with the mechanics of life and the seemingly endless dramas (these days called time and energy vampires!) that we forget how to truly live.
Billy Joel sings:
“This is the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold on to
Cause we won’t
Although we’ll want to”
I often hear people bemoan that they wake up one morning and say to themselves, “where did this last year go; where did my life go?” and are filled with regrets and “I should haves” that can never be recaptured.
It is my fervent wish that, when we express gratitude for the good things in our lives, be it our work, our families, our health, and accept our challenges with grace, we will remember that we are not alone and that together, we can inspire and support each other to hope rather than despair, to lofty dreams instead of complacency, to love instead of fear, to compassion instead of anger, to laughter instead of tears, to health instead of sickness.
