Blog 3783 – 03.21.2036

Where Does The Time Go?

It is a question seldom asked by children and young people who seem oblivious to the passage of time, enjoying a long and seeming endless summer briefly interrupted by the three lesser seasons. As we age those other seasons come more into focus and depending upon whether we are optimistic or pessimistic we see them overshadowing the lazy hazy summer of our youth.

The anniversary of every birthday seems to arrive sooner than it did last year and soon the number of surviving childhood friend can be counted on a single hand. Where does the time go? Like the title of a fictional book about the South that sadly romanticizes slavery it is Gone With The Wind.

The good old days is a silly term that old folks use nostalgically as they mythologize memories from the long hot summer of their youth. Those days were not better nor longer than days are today. We just perhaps allowed ourselves to enjoy them more. Where has our attitude of gratitude gone might be a more honest question. The secret to life, long or short, is found in an attitude of continuous gratitude.

There is always something to be grateful for and one does not have to look all that hard to find it. In my daily mantra I try to remind myself of that truth:

“My heart and my mind are open. My arms and my hands are open. My mouth, nose, ears, and eyes are open to all the Universe has for me, for all the Universe to flow in and through me.”

Will I be around another quarter century this go round? Perhaps or perhaps not, but this one thing I know, I will do my dead level best to make the most of whatever time I have left always looking for the gift that every new day brings.

I fully intend to share with everyone I meet the Secret to a long, a happy life, and a fulfilling life, one in which the cup is neither half full nor half empty,  but ever runneth over.

On this first day of spring remember, Hope springs eternal.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White