My girlfriends often talk about how challenging it is to spend so much time at work, away from their kids. Yet on Tuesday, the first day of school, someone described the scene around her as: “Ah, the sight of happy parents dancing in the street as the school bus leaves with their kids for the first day of school.”
Isn’t it funny how often we long to be with our kids when we’re away from them, and then we long for a break from our kids when we’re with them?
The same thing happens with many folks who were recently laid off or “Pinked” (per Pink Slip Mixers.) My unemployed friends talk about the stress, urgency, and conflicts associated with not having a job. But when they were employed, they talked about the stress, urgency, and conflicts associated with having a job. When they are re-hired in a strengthening economy, will they still be talking about stress, urgency, and conflicts?
College students often show that kind of pattern, too. They suffer through minimum-wage summer jobs, unhappily separated from their friends at school, and counting the days until they can get back to school. But shortly after classes start, they begin counting the days until all the papers and tests are over and they can enjoy Christmas break.
So here’s the lesson that we might consider as we go back to school/work this fall: we don’t have to postpone our happiness for some future moment; it’s here right now! Let’s appreciate our friends at work and the little perks of our job when we’re at the office (a comedian joked that new employees are really excited about free coffee.) And let’s appreciate the time when we’re not working. Let’s appreciate our kids when they’re with us, and the freedom when they’re not around. Let’s appreciate being in school while we’re there, and being free to move on after graduation.
May you appreciate every moment!
DrD…I love that word so much…I say it as often as I can and my subconscious Awareness opens more and I receive more from it such as many more jocular moments of laughter with a great group of co workers or family and friends as I heard once somewhere about Laughter is the best medicine in Readers Digest and that it also creates more cell development in neurons and seratonin levels..when you appreciate and are grateful it is a domino effect opening up all over your physical being….but one must shift to being with those words..sometimes you have to trick yourself into being gratreful as I said the subconscious is where the belief system comes from and it cannot decipher what is right or not…more affirmations the better the outcome..enjoy my Dearest Soul Angel of God*
Love your posts..keep doing them*
May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)
Dom*
dearest deb,
it all depends on our appreciation, whether we will love life or not.. blessed are those who can relish or enjoy life just the way they meet it, you appear to be one of them so am i..
Wish you love, peace and happiness.
Trisha
Thanks Soul Bro Dom and dearest Trisha — you're singing the song in my heart this morning!
Peace and love and (((HUGS))),
Deb
dr deb,
what a wonderful blog and so true. we as a people due tend to behave just like that. thanks for that.
blessings to you and yours!!!
carla:)