This
statement was written, I do not claim to know when, but it was written before
he died in 1967. Makes me wonder, fearfully, if times do change at all. Well
yes so many things have changed since then, but personal challenges remain the
same throughout the times. And no amount of smart phone, pocket book apps can
take way from the anxiety of having to raise a family and juggle a career.
Even finding
a healthy balance of work and play is ridiculously stressful and complicated.
Finding the most convenient gym, enough sports for the kids, a healthy diet.
The balancing of schedules and the careful growing of healthy stable
motivated minds.
There is
however that moment, that very small window of peace. Just before you lift your
head from a half night’s sleep. When there are no kids, no budget balancing.
Where the world is pure and your breathing is even. Where homework books don’t
need to be signed and lunch does not need making. Where your response to a 10
year old boy is just a response and not a well worded emotionally reassuring
age appropriate response. Where there are no deadlines and no workplace power
struggles. Aaaaah that split second moment. It moves swiftly from your mind and
your grasp, but that moment does exist in the dullness between sleep and wake.
It’s a silver lining moment and is so microscopic, we often miss it.
We are eager
to reel ourselves head first, back to our high speed marathon, thinking that if
we execute every task at the speed of light it won’t be back tomorrow. Without
even a pause for regret or to smile at the sun kissing your face. I wish I were
wise enough to let the small things slide and be still even through the noise.
I wish I were wise enough to know that even though, not every moment has purity
and quiet, I am allowed more peace than the quiet between slumber and wake.
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