Things we take for granted

The things we take for granted

  Every day is a new chance, a clean canvas to paint and an empty page to write.
Every morning greets us with opportunities and challenges, they are there for us to just reach them and grasp them.
But how many of us actually realizes this??
In this hectic environment, where we live nowadays, we are so busy to rush and keep up with the demands,what we are pressured to do to keep the pace, to not fall off from the wagon.
So, once the alarm goes on in the morning, the race begins.......hurry hurry hurry.
We have a shower, throw in a cup of coffee and take off...
In the buses we stare our laptops and cellphones or read the newspapers, and the same again at the lunchbreak, if we are lucky enough to have one.
Somewhere there, in the middle if this chaos are also
the children and spouses, probably doing the very same, rushing through the day and the week and the month, just like we are.
Life has become a race, a race for the fittest, no time to slow down..if you do, you are out, replaced.

So, when does the life start?
When we are born? When we get to retire? When we have earned enough money??

What if??
What if we never get to live long enough to retire? Or earn that appropriate mount of money? Or what if we are already too sick to enjoy the life by the time we are about to retire from this madness?
Do you have a chrystall ball,where you can foresee your future?
I didn't think so 😉.
I certainly don't have that ability to see to the future, I don't even want to know what is there waiting for me.

So, I have decided to slow down and enjoy this very moment, where I am right now.
Life is precious, and you never know when you take your last breath...
Everything can change in one little moment, so why waste the sand in your hour-glass to the things,what doesn't make you happy?

When is the last time, you kissed your spouse? When did you tell your children,how much they mean to you and actually listened to them?

We have a home to go, not everyone is so lucky.
We have clean water to drink, there are still millions of people in this planet who live without clean water and sanitation.
Our kids get to go to the school, girls too....
That too,is taken for granted. That too, is only a distant dream to some, to learn how to read and write.

Oh, those things we take for granted....
When do we really open our eyes and understand, how lucky we are ??

I am so thankful that I have my health and freedom, so blessed to be a mother of an amazing child.
I am priviledged to have a shelter to sleep, fresh water and food to keep the engine going on.
I have few very close friends, who make my life always a bit brighter and sunnier.

This is my life, and the sand in the hour-glass is my sand.
I don't wanna live without living, I wanna live and feel it in every core of my body.
I wanna smell the roses, feel the wind on my face, feel the salty seawater on my lips.
I wanna see the sunrise like it would be my very last to see.
I wanna enjoy the open camp fire, feel the heat,hear the flames cracking on the wood.
I wanna make love with my body and soul, surrender to the lust and intimacy.
Because when the time is out, when the sand has poured through, I wanna fall asleep in my eternal dream peacefully and smiling.