Beautiful day
origianally written on Sept 15th
The sun is shining and there is a slight cool breeze in the air.....ahhh, i love it. Isn't it odd that during the frigid winter months we pray and pray for summer to hurry up and warm our feet and noses, yet when summer rolls in and leaves us with Allergy exploding heads and sunburns that we hope don't turn into wrinkles too soon, we pray and pray for the frigid winter air.........i'm sure it can't be just me who thinks this way. I can't wait to stock up on firewood and thaw my feet in front of a blazing fire........i'm ready for winter. Don't get me wrong, having grown up in Toronto Canada i am a fan of all seasons, but i think winter is my favourite.
we always want what we don;t have.... i think it's human nature. When its summer, we want winter, if you have curly hair you want straight hair and visa versa. I am learning to accept and embrace the things i do have and not waste too much time wanting more, or better. Its always good to dream and to aspire....i think without those, you are just simply existing....but there is a fine line between settling in life and wasting it away wishing for what cannot be. sometimes i wonder if we are the only species that dream and desire......i mean i wonder if ants ever pause for a moment and wish for a bigger colony, or for a bigger cookie crumb to fall right next to them. Do monkeys ever wish that they had smaller asses, or longer tails? random thought i know, but still one of my thoughts.
I saw a show on TV not too long ago about these young girls of 10 and 11 who were going to extreme measures to look like the women in magaizines or hollywood movies. young girls who should be playing with dolls andplaying jump rope, starving themselves to be "beautiful".....it breaks my heart. I don't remember ever worrying about that when i was 10 years old......i was too busy playing hide and seek and putting band aids on my scraped knees. I pray that my nieces can hold on to their youthful innocence for as long as they can..... i worry about whether or not it will get worse and all children will end up tarnished by social standards. what is to become of the children of tomorrow...............you can drive yourself crazy thinking about how messed up the world is...believe me. There is a bird chirping outside....for a moment it makes me smile and feel light hearted. i love the simple things in life.
The sun is shining and there is a slight cool breeze in the air.....ahhh, i love it. Isn't it odd that during the frigid winter months we pray and pray for summer to hurry up and warm our feet and noses, yet when summer rolls in and leaves us with Allergy exploding heads and sunburns that we hope don't turn into wrinkles too soon, we pray and pray for the frigid winter air.........i'm sure it can't be just me who thinks this way. I can't wait to stock up on firewood and thaw my feet in front of a blazing fire........i'm ready for winter. Don't get me wrong, having grown up in Toronto Canada i am a fan of all seasons, but i think winter is my favourite.
we always want what we don;t have.... i think it's human nature. When its summer, we want winter, if you have curly hair you want straight hair and visa versa. I am learning to accept and embrace the things i do have and not waste too much time wanting more, or better. Its always good to dream and to aspire....i think without those, you are just simply existing....but there is a fine line between settling in life and wasting it away wishing for what cannot be. sometimes i wonder if we are the only species that dream and desire......i mean i wonder if ants ever pause for a moment and wish for a bigger colony, or for a bigger cookie crumb to fall right next to them. Do monkeys ever wish that they had smaller asses, or longer tails? random thought i know, but still one of my thoughts.
I saw a show on TV not too long ago about these young girls of 10 and 11 who were going to extreme measures to look like the women in magaizines or hollywood movies. young girls who should be playing with dolls andplaying jump rope, starving themselves to be "beautiful".....it breaks my heart. I don't remember ever worrying about that when i was 10 years old......i was too busy playing hide and seek and putting band aids on my scraped knees. I pray that my nieces can hold on to their youthful innocence for as long as they can..... i worry about whether or not it will get worse and all children will end up tarnished by social standards. what is to become of the children of tomorrow...............you can drive yourself crazy thinking about how messed up the world is...believe me. There is a bird chirping outside....for a moment it makes me smile and feel light hearted. i love the simple things in life.
3 Comments:
At 10:30 AM, MCSCOTT said…
I hear ya about the Summer/Winter thing and I use to be that way, but now if I could find a place where it stayed like fall all year long I would move there in a heartbeat. I don't look forward to winter, cause I do alot of offroading and it is always cold, damp and miserable. The Summer should be nice, but it is always hot, dry, and miserable. Fall is nice though. Other than that, there are alot of things I want in life, but if I don't get them it really doesn't bother me. The song that says "I just want to live until I die" pretty much describes me, and I feel great today because of the time of year it is, if I died at least I would be pretty happy. Course I hope that don't happen just yeat cause I have kinda grown fond of life.
At 10:44 AM, Danni said…
that's such a great out look on life.I just wantt o get better at living in the moment...so if i did die today i wouldn't go..shit, wait, there's so many things i haven't done yet. i wonder if i'll ever do all the things i want to do.
At 1:13 PM, MCSCOTT said…
I can see what you mean by that, and there are still alot of things I want to do and see in my life. However, I also learned at an early age that if you try to cram it all in quick, you look back and it is all a blurr. I have basically accepted the fact that there are things on my wish list that will come true at some point in my life, and there are also things that will not. I went through a time when I tried to cram as many experiences into my life as I possibly could, so that I wouldn't miss out on anything, and looking back now I can't really remember much of it at all, so it is kinda like it never happened.
I've settled into more of a slow country way of life now so that even if I don't get to do everything I want to do, at least I can enjoy every moment that I get.
If any of that makes any sence.
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