And then …. It is winter!
I Believe:
The Happiest of People Don’t Necessarily Have the Best of Everything.
They Just Make The Most of Everything They Have…………
How ironic. It is as if someone has plucked these thoughts out of my mind. Life catches up with you without your realizing it. And then, it is too late! Or is it?
So philosophical yet meaningful. And then it is Winter. You know. . . Time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years.
| It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went. …… I know that I lived them all.And I have glimpses of how it was back then and of all my hopes and dreams… But, here it is… The winter of my life and it catches me by surprise… How did I get here so fast? Where did the years go and where did my youth go?I remember well…seeing older people through the years and thinking that those older people were years away from me and that winter was so far off that I could not fathom it or imagine fully what it would be like… But, here it is…my friends are retired and getting grey…they move slower and I see an older person now. Each day now, I find that just getting a shower is a real target for the day! And so… Now I enter into this new season of my life unprepared for all the aches and pains and the loss of strength and ability to go and do things that I wish I had done but never did!! But, at least I know, that though the winter has come, and I’m not sure how long it will last…this I know, that when it’s over… Its over… So, if you’re not in your winter yet…let me remind you, that it will be here faster than you think. Life goes by quickly. So, do what you can today, as you can never be sure whether this is your winter or not! You have no promise that you will see all the seasons of your life… So, live for today and say all the things that you want your loved ones to remember… And hope that they appreciate and love you for all the things that you have done for them in all the years past!! “Life is a gift to you. LIVE IT WELL! Remember “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold or silver.” “Happiness is a state of mind, and it’s a choice: do not wait for it from others or from circumstances. Editor’s Note: Author unknown |
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Wherever you are at this moment in time, make it count.
Good article! As the cliche goes “time flies” and time once passed never returns. I totally agree that we should maximize our precious time and don’t develop the habit of procrastinating meaningful things that we want to do today or else there will be much regrets. Carpe diem…..seize each day and as Rosaliene said “make it count.”
Reminds me of this poem by Thomas Campbell.
The River of Life,
The more we live, more brief appear
Our life’s succeeding stages;
A day to childhood seems a year,
And years like passing ages.
The gladsome current of our youth,
Ere passion yet disorders,
Steals lingering like a river smooth
Along its grassy borders.
But as the careworn cheek grows wan,
And sorrow’s shafts fly thicker,
Ye stars, that measure life to man,
Why seem your courses quicker?
When joys have lost their bloom and breath,
And life itself is vapid,
Why, as we reach the Falls of Death
Feel we its tide more rapid?
It may be strange—yet who would change
Time’s course to slower speeding,
When one by one our friends have gone,
And left our bosoms bleeding?
Heaven gives our years of fading strength
Indemnifying fleetness;
And those of youth, a seeming length,
Proportion’d to their sweetness.
Thomas Campbell