February 20, 2009 Chautauqua

From the Editor's Computer

Can you spend a blissful hour and half doing something you truly enjoy. Can you immerse yourself totally into the task so that you are completely in the present moment and don’t even notice the world around you? Can you surrender you expectations of the outcome and just enjoy the experience?

As children we were able to do that. How many children can spend hours creating new worlds from a simple cardboard box? Or, do you remember being outside in the summer time and watching the clouds float overhead?

Not only can children teach us to reconnect to those special moments, pets can to. Take a moment to watch a puppy really chewing a bone, or a cat soaking up the sunshine.

If we spent less time frantically rushing around trying to get it all done and more time just enjoying the present experience, we’d find that our lives progress in a smoother fashion, and paradoxically, we would get more done in the long run.

Life is meant to be experienced, not rushed through as though it was a race.

Beth

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