I wish this was a random thought for the day but it's not. I find more and more as I age that my ability to be patient is greater though the things that require patience also tend to increase as well. Sometimes within the frustration of waiting a lesson can be found. It's like the saying about the journey being more important than the destination.
I think back to my youth and how impatient I used to be with everything from the car rides to Grandma and Grandpa's to waiting for Mom to cook supper. Of coarse having a rather short attention span doesn't help. I also think about the one area I was always willing to be patient and that was fishing. Strange really because fishing can be so boring but once you hook one and the fight is on all that waiting seems like a drop of water in a bucket. After a while the fishing became less important than just taking the time to get away from the hustle and bustle of life for a few short hours at the lake or river. Truth be told there were many a days that I would set out to fish and end up relaxing on my back along the shore watching the clouds roll by as the melody of the river lulled me to sleep. Truly a simple pleasure and one that most folks take for granted.
I think we all get so wrapped up in everyday life we forget to stop and watch the clouds. Seriously, when was the last time you did that? We live in a world filled with instant gratification that moves 90 miles per hour. Really have have become a generation of impatient adults never willing to give more than 30 seconds to anything and packing as much into a day as we can. I see this first hand on a daily basis living in the city. I admit, I get caught up in it too. I guess that's why I enjoy coming back to the small town that I'm from. Things move a little bit slower there, though not to much. Ok, that's not the only reason I came back but it's on the list!
Being scattered brained as I am so much of the time, I started this post a couple of days ago and had something completely different in mind. After I started to write, there was a realization that I was revealing too much about me and opted to set it aside and come back later. Rereading this now, I think that was a good choice. I know that the purpose of this blog is write whatever is on my mind but sometimes there are things just too personal and to emotional for me to put up for the world to see. Also I tend to ramble and lose my initial thought. None the less, I have made my point and said what was on my brain...for the most part. I think I will go outside and enjoy the wind as the clouds float on by.
“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.”
~Henry David Thoreau
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