Noise Noise Noise!! Too much noise. Everywhere you look all
around you there is noise. Do this, do that, no peace, no quiet, no
silence. You can't think, you can't hear, you can't listen. You
can't just take a moment to smell the roses, listen to the birds sing, relax
and read the paper or a good book or do absolutely nothing and just be because
there is just too much noise.
The interesting
thing is that the noise is of our own making because somehow we believe that if
we stopped for a moment the whole world would stop revolving, nothing would get
done, we would cease to exist, the house wouldn't get cleaned etc. But if
you dropped dead from exhaustion, or got sick and was laid up for a while what
do you think would happen?
Here's a question
for you: what do you want to do right now at this very moment? Do you
feel guilty about it? That somehow if you take a moment for yourself you
are wrong? That you should be caring and doing for
others? That just taking a moment is selfish on your part? Jesus
himself said "love your neighbor as yourself." How can we love
and do for others if we don't know how to do it for ourselves?
Take my very
foolish and simplistic advice it’s okay to just BE! To listen to the birds
sing, to read a good book or watch a favorite tv show, to sing, to laugh,
to dance or just do nothing. After all the only place that
there is no noise is in the grave and no one wants to go there prematurely and that’s
where all the noise and the stress and the unhappiness will lead you to is an
early grave.
Life is too short
ENJOY IT and JUST BE!
