My Red Tree

How have I been spending my time? Well it’s a funny thing time, you can’t hold onto it, there’s never enough of it, and it’s the one thing you want most. Lately I have come to realize more and more that truly it is a gift. After all we don’t do anything to acquire it, however it’s there for us to use as we will, clearly a gift. Not to be taken for granted.

So although I have been busy, as usual, there are a few things I do more of. I notice the sunsets, I observe nature changing all around me every day. The way the leaves deepen into a darker hue, as summer turns into full swing. I take advantage of the music all around me, birds singing, the voices of my loved ones, the way the trees clap and sway to their own personal rhythm. This is all a part of me, of who I am, and if I can’t see it, hear it, feel it, then it becomes lost to me, as my world spins into an endless race to stay above, to stay ahead. So then what I work for, hope for, and dream of, would then somehow lose its meaning.

So find the time to laugh a little. Look up at the sky, as you embrace the beauty around you, just waiting to be discovered. But most importantly, give of your time, of yourself, to those who matter most, because that is after all the greatest investment you could make in the bank of life.