Time passes so quickly! As ever, the challenge is to live in the present. To savour this moment. To be thankful for all we have and all we are. Being human, all too often we only appreciate things when we’ve lost them. So enjoy this day. Count your blessings. All you have going for you. Stand back a bit and reflect. Breathe. That heart won’t tick forever. It’s later than you think, and all that. Health, our greatest wealth. The people in our lives. Be thankful too for yourself. I always liked the line from one of the psalms: ‘For the wonder of myself.’ Most of us need to consider that. For each life, ours included, is full of wonder. Sure, we’ve all made mistakes. But we’ve got a lot right too. Made more good decisions than poor ones. We’re survived. We’re reading this. We live. Hope lives. Life exudes all around us. Expel air. Breathe it in. You won’t always be able to do that. Heart ticking. Yours. Mine. For now. So, enjoy this moment.
Tweet
Tag Archives: Enjoy this moment
Dear Sarah, On the Eve of your Leaving Cert
Dear Sarah, my daughter, on the eve of your Leaving Cert,
I know you think that the entire outcome of your life hinges on how well you do in your exams.
It doesn’t.
I know you think that the grades that you feel you have to get will determine your happiness or unhappiness in life.
They won’t.
I know you think that your performance during your exams will open or close doors for you.
It won’t. (Really, it won’t: there are thousands of doors you don’t even know exist – and you will choose one of them for you!)
You may think that a certain outcome will open the particular door that you feel you most want in life.
It might or it might not open that door. But your happiness does not depend on that door opening.
You may think that the grades you get will determine how clever or otherwise you are.
They won’t.
You may think that others will judge you by the points you get in your Leaving Cert.
They won’t. (And those who do are not wise, so you can discount their judgments anyway.)
You might feel like a sword is hanging over your head.
There isn’t.
If you get the grades you want, they might or might not lead to happiness.
You could learn much more in life and be far happier if you get fewer grades than you’d like.
You know lots. Of course there is lots more that you don’t know. So in the celebrations of knowledge which are about to begin try your best to celebrate on the page what you know.
And, by the way, you know far more than you realise.
And you also know far less! (Since the more any of us know, the more we realise how relatively little we know.)
Don’t expect to be able to share everything you know: nobody can do that.
Live the moment. Live this moment.
Enjoy this moment, and, yes, enjoy, really enjoy, these celebrations of what you know. See them as your opportunity to do yourself justice – because you do deserve to do well. Just don’t worry how anyone else estimates what well means for you.
Detach! Don’t worry about the outcome. Just live in the moment. Enjoy every moment!
Love, Your Dad. 7 June 2016
Tweet
Silly toil
Sometimes far too much is asked and expected of us. We are simply slaves to someone else’s agenda. We are probably being manipulated. So stand back if you are being asked to do too much. If it cannot be done without loss of the balance of your life and if you are no longer happy doing something, it is time to move on. You are nobody’s slave. You choose. You are responsible only for yourself. The world is an abundant place. You are multi-talented. Life is too short to spend it miserably. Enjoy this moment and, if you can’t, leave behind whatever it is that’s dragging you down. Life is for living to the full – today!
Enjoy this moment!
Now that I’ve deleted hours and hours’ worth of stuff which I’d generated for the origianl purpose of this site, I want to take the bare look off the site by launching into the deep. The best word of the wise I heard in the last year or so was a conversation I struck up with a guy – ah, the wonders of technology – who had taken remote control of my computer, even though I was sitting in the wilds of Meath in Ireland and he was Somewhere In India! God-knows-how but the conversation turned to wisdom. What was the wisest thought he could offer me? ‘Enjoy every moment,’ he said. What a wise pointer, to guide us in this moment, which is the only moment we’ll ever know!