“The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.” Ashley Montagu
And what I am learning about myself is to watch what I do.
Just simply watch yourself, what your day consists of, where you go and what you do.
Today I offered advice to a friend to simply do simple things.
And then I followed my advice and drove up to watch my husband and son as they worked on their project, clearing the land for a deer camp. Just being there in the woods with them, seeing the changes of our land, seeing their excitement and to hear the possibilities of their dreams.
My girls came too, and recalled the times spent catching frogs in that pond, then commenced to have a contest who could catch a frog first.
An hour of my day helping to carry branches, clearing the site, being involved in their world, making memories, adding on to life’s color.
“Life happens at the level of events, not words.” Alfred Adler
What I know to be true is that we are events happening all the time. Some days the only event is being tired, or being bored, but nonetheless it is an event.
I am going to watch what kind of event I am.
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the small uncaring ways.”
Stephen Saint Vincent Benet
I wonder if we care about the wrong things, until death is at our doors? Can we literally be careless with life until we are like dead men walking?
I am thinking we can be alive, breath coming in and out, but really living life is so different than just being alive.
“One must lose one’s life in order to find it.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I feel like I was reborn and that I am learning how to really live in my life, to experience and to be aware of many things.
To be open to doing and going places where before I had a preset of no.
Doesn’t it sometimes seem that the ones closest to death hang on more preciously to life, and those of us who ‘believe’ we have many years are so careless.
Do you know, are you sure, dare you be careless?
While we still have the choice to live while alive, let’s do it for the ones who have no choice.
Live like you are dying, and aren’t we all?
I am dying to Live!
