It's good.
I do not need to make grand alterations, only small alterations. I suppose maybe that is what that "don't sweat the small stuff" book meant when it exclaimed that it is ALL small stuff. The small simple pieces of existence alter the bigger picture items.
Slowing down with life is something that i have enjoyed on very rare occasions. I live my life as a speeding bullet, racing through time and moving quickly from one thing to the next. I have a desire to do EVERYTHING that life has to offer, and i often see time as wasting if i stay too long on one thing in particular. However, while i can continue to enjoy the many things that life has to offer at as fast as a pace as i will - slowing down on a micro level will actually allow me to truly experience those things even more.
Dishes, Cooking Dinner, Bedtime Stories, Laundry, Weekends, Eating, Sex. (examples)
Rushing causes more loss than gain.
This past week i took my boys to "the movie store" (blockbuster) as a regular thing that we do to pick out a kid's movie every few days. On the way out to the car, my boys (2 and 3) walked on the small ledge separating the parking lot from the concrete. I didn't rush them to the car, i embraced the moment and encouraged them as they found how well they could balance. We were smiling and laughing and engaging and loving each other.
Its stuff like that. Slowing down to enjoy those moments. To LIVE those moments.
Time is precious - but that idea can spawn us into hurrying through things and moving forward to crunch as much as possible into the limited time we have.
Instead i plan to move more slowly, and be here now.
Simple. Slow. Serenity.
