We live in a very busy world as parents who must balance work, children, spouse, and of course personal time to ourselves ( no matter how much we love friends and family, we do need time for ourselves alone), which is often sacrificed to meet all our other committments.


How many of us have pushed our kids in front of a TV with a favorite video, just to find a few minutes to read the paper or simply to sit and rest from the insistent chorus of “play with me!”. Have you more often than not pushed your spouse away as well in order to take a break from underlying issues or concerns that you feel to tired to deal with other than with avoidance?

Now, think just how fast the time flew by since you were a child yourself, or since you met your husband or wife and were just dating. I’m sure there are some great memories back in the past of times you really enjoyed. Life is still hurtling you at breakneck speed toward the future, whether you’re enjoying yourself or not, whether you’re ‘where you want to be in life’ yet.
Stop, the next time your child, spouse, parent, friend asks for your time. Think, how many times in this life will I get to enjoy being with this person? How many times will you be able to play with your child as a child, not the grown man or woman they will one day be, who won’t look at you the same way, or need you, as the child you have now does. That magic is only now, never later. How often will you enjoy being with your spouse as a young, healthy couple, without the concerns of illness and debility ( and if we are lucky enough to have a long, healthy life–illness and debility is still inevitably the state we will end our days in). Think of what you would like to say, to your mother or father, if you knew they were going to die tomorrow, how would you spend that last day? Now, go and spend that day with them, because you will never know when that last day will be, and do you want to live the rest of your life with that regret?
Now. What an amazing word. It means: THIS VERY MOMENT. All life is composed of them. Moments in time. We cannot recapture the ones that have passed. We cannot enjoy the ones that have yet to be, because that will blind us to the moments of the present.
Focus. When someone special in your life needs you, focus on that person now. Remember that the chance to enjoy them may not come again in this world.
Remember, life does end, it is a tragic, yet beautiful fact, beautiful because knowing that we will never come this way again will make every experience a cause for celebration, and every opportunity a prize.
Now, go live.

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