Have you ever noticed how often magazine articles capture the attention by making lists? 10 Ways To Change Your World, 15 Foods Never To Eat, 3 Easy Steps to Financial Wealth, 5 ways to Find True Love and 50 Ways To Leave Him.
These days, busy lifestyles create short attention spans. We live life with bullet points and priority to do lists. We want results without due process. Multi tasking has become routine. We wonder why children can't focus? Adults, by example, never do. Television commercials appear to be successful in thirty second bursts with eight or ten shown in rapid succession. Relationships are featured in sound bites, texts and video clips. I still haven't figured out the Cialis ad. A middle aged couple end up in separate old bathtubs out in the backyard? Is this what kids going off to college think their parents do for intimacy? Life has become one of constant brief distractions digitally enhanced and scored with someone else's music. Posting on Pinterest is a substitution for creativity. Perhaps these seem like sweeping generalizations. But when we need to read 22 Ways to Improve Life and Slow Down Aging and first on the list is BREATHE, perhaps it is time to pause and think.
There is magic in watching a seedling grow, dough rise, the tide change, the stars come out at night. Touch the fabric of life, feel the air on your skin, whisper a prayer in your heart, listen to the music of nature, experience the sensation of being alive. Hold someone's hand and really feel the human connection. Have a meaningful conversation in person. Value your thoughts enough to write them down for remembrance. Avoid post it notes and ease into perception for there, wisdom is born. See, I've just created a list of 13 Ways to Enhance Life.
There is only one May 16, 2013. Enjoy your day!
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