I love books. I have spent countless hours reading, totally engrossed in the story written in ink on those many pages. Our lives are like a story lived out instead of written down on the pages of a book. We often think our lives are boring or average. No great adventures, not filled with danger or some great love story or steamy rampant affair, nothing special. I tend to disagree with that perception though.
Each day is a new fresh page, you never know what twists and turns your story will take. What adventures are in store for you around the next corner. Take a closer look at what think is average or boring. Everything you come in contact with becomes part of your story, even if it is for a brief moment, it is all magical and unique. When friends ask me what I am doing I usually say 'nuttin'! In fact that is not entirely true.
Any number of things are going on around us, if we take the time to really appreciate them and see them. For example, look and really listen to the birds and everything else around you the next time you go veg out in your back yard. How amazing they are. Flying around from tree to tree, hopping around on their little legs on the ground, singing their unique symphony to us free of charge. Watch the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees, caressing our skin and gently running its 'finger' through our hair. So many amazing things that go on in our stories that we scarcely even notice.
I love watching my kids play together. They make adventures and stories and act them out as they play. As we grow I think we forget how to play and let our minds free of inhibition to create things, inspired by all that surrounds us. Like a day dream. Why is it that so many adults have such a hard time playing and letting go? What happened as our stories unfold that makes that so hard to do? Each second of our lives are an adventure, each thing we see and do is never the same, always fresh, always a new angle. Yet we always seem to seek to spice things up.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons people cheat on each their significant other, or look for someone new. We forget to look at the amazing person laying there beside us. Appreciate each day how they change, how they think and express themselves. We forget to tell them how magical they are. We forget to be open to how we feel and to what we see. We forget to see the things we fell in love with, what we felt when it was new and fresh. The excitement of looking at them, touching them, listening to their heart beat or the sound of their breathing.
It's time to open your mind and your eyes and to look at all the amazing and magical things around you, all the things that touch your story and make it what it is.
Each day is a new fresh page, you never know what twists and turns your story will take. What adventures are in store for you around the next corner. Take a closer look at what think is average or boring. Everything you come in contact with becomes part of your story, even if it is for a brief moment, it is all magical and unique. When friends ask me what I am doing I usually say 'nuttin'! In fact that is not entirely true.
Any number of things are going on around us, if we take the time to really appreciate them and see them. For example, look and really listen to the birds and everything else around you the next time you go veg out in your back yard. How amazing they are. Flying around from tree to tree, hopping around on their little legs on the ground, singing their unique symphony to us free of charge. Watch the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees, caressing our skin and gently running its 'finger' through our hair. So many amazing things that go on in our stories that we scarcely even notice.
I love watching my kids play together. They make adventures and stories and act them out as they play. As we grow I think we forget how to play and let our minds free of inhibition to create things, inspired by all that surrounds us. Like a day dream. Why is it that so many adults have such a hard time playing and letting go? What happened as our stories unfold that makes that so hard to do? Each second of our lives are an adventure, each thing we see and do is never the same, always fresh, always a new angle. Yet we always seem to seek to spice things up.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons people cheat on each their significant other, or look for someone new. We forget to look at the amazing person laying there beside us. Appreciate each day how they change, how they think and express themselves. We forget to tell them how magical they are. We forget to be open to how we feel and to what we see. We forget to see the things we fell in love with, what we felt when it was new and fresh. The excitement of looking at them, touching them, listening to their heart beat or the sound of their breathing.
It's time to open your mind and your eyes and to look at all the amazing and magical things around you, all the things that touch your story and make it what it is.
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