What Do You Look Forward To?
What are you looking forward to? What is the occasion, intention, person, or experience that occupies that little place in your head that when you think about it, the nook of your mouth hints of a small smile? The gleam in your eye takes your imagination to that specific factor in some future time or place and converts the present into an acceptable condition, however the comfort or the situation.
From our earliest memories, we have looked forward to birthdays, trips to Disney World, favorite foods, best friends, first days of summer, shopping trips with a parent, fishing with a favorite uncle, or baking pies with an aunt. Our world was shaped by these forward thoughts, and our mundane normalcy was more palatable with thoughts of what was around the corner. How ironic that the simplicity of childhood had any sort of necessity for such thinking. But so it went, and there it was.
As life grows up longer in the tooth, do we continue to discover this kind of longings? Do we remember what we anticipate next? Do we understand that the habits we established as children are just as important today as we live our way of life stuffed with a greater sense of complication and frustration, sometimes losing focus on just what we should really be focusing upon?
Think about what you look forward to today? It could be something in your life, or the life of a loved one. Your grandson's wedding in December, your daughter's graduation from medical school, your completion of next month's 5K run, your successful completion of physical therapy from rotator cuff surgery.
Concentrate on providing that an energy that will inspire your behavior towards your next milestone. Your next year...Your next month...Or your next day. At every age, we should continually be looking forward to something - it makes living in the present far more attractive, because similar to reading a book, you have the next page to go to.
Life should always manifest that little grin at the nook of your face when you reflect upon that which you look forward to. You owe it to yourself to maintain that childhood tradition alive and well while traveling along life's every-changing journey.
From our earliest memories, we have looked forward to birthdays, trips to Disney World, favorite foods, best friends, first days of summer, shopping trips with a parent, fishing with a favorite uncle, or baking pies with an aunt. Our world was shaped by these forward thoughts, and our mundane normalcy was more palatable with thoughts of what was around the corner. How ironic that the simplicity of childhood had any sort of necessity for such thinking. But so it went, and there it was.
As life grows up longer in the tooth, do we continue to discover this kind of longings? Do we remember what we anticipate next? Do we understand that the habits we established as children are just as important today as we live our way of life stuffed with a greater sense of complication and frustration, sometimes losing focus on just what we should really be focusing upon?
Think about what you look forward to today? It could be something in your life, or the life of a loved one. Your grandson's wedding in December, your daughter's graduation from medical school, your completion of next month's 5K run, your successful completion of physical therapy from rotator cuff surgery.
Concentrate on providing that an energy that will inspire your behavior towards your next milestone. Your next year...Your next month...Or your next day. At every age, we should continually be looking forward to something - it makes living in the present far more attractive, because similar to reading a book, you have the next page to go to.
Life should always manifest that little grin at the nook of your face when you reflect upon that which you look forward to. You owe it to yourself to maintain that childhood tradition alive and well while traveling along life's every-changing journey.
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