Reflections…
Why is it so hard to just sit and write or reflect? We spend so much time racing and running that we never allow ourselves to slow down, stop and reflect. And according to all of the sources that is what we need the most right now in our society. The symptoms are that we are no longer connecting with other people in our culture. Could it be that we don’t know others because we no longer know ourselves? I know that I am probably living the life that someone else has planned for me.
So why is it so difficult for us to slow down? And by “us” I mean me? Why are we so obsessed with speed and increase and growth and change? Back in the day the pace of things was so much slower. People had more of a pace with which to know themselves and then were able to connect with other people and get to know them. Pictures of a more rural life and time come to my mind. The town dances. Lunch after church. Times when people could truly connect. Whole families knew each other, beginning with grandma and grandpa’s friends down to the kids friends.
Connections.
Where are the connections now? It’s hard to create connections when you are running at a hundred miles an hour. There is just no space or place for it. Take my life for example. I’m a full time CPA working 50-60 hours a week. I’m Mayor of my town which requires sometimes up to 15 hours in a week. I’m a husband of a wonderful and beautiful wife. I’m father to twin two-year old boys. I try to get to church as often as I can. So as you can I am busy.
Why am I so busy? What is it in me that causes me to take on so much?
I know that I work to make a living. I serve my community as Mayor because I am good at it and it gives me a chance to give back to the community. I am a husband because I love my wife and want the best for her and my family. I am a father because I love my boys and I want them to grow up to be good men. So maybe it’s not my schedule that needs adjusting. Maybe it’s my perspective. Maybe instead of looking at all the things that I have to do, maybe I can frame them in my mind as the things that I get to do.
Who knows, maybe it’s something worth looking at.
