I rarely meet a person who is doing exactly what they want to be doing, the result of which leaves them energized with a kind of satisfying fatigue. This, however, is not the state of exhaustion I'm referring to.
After speaking with my neighbor about her busy life, I was reminded that we run and run and run from one dismal or wonderful thing to another, saving the best parts of ourselves for the people who don't really know us. Our intimate friends and family tend to suffer the consequences of our over-stuffed lives.
I've been listening to a Carrie Underwood song called "So Small". Here is an excerpt that has followed me around these last several days:
While you sit around thinking about what you can't change
and worrying about all the wrong things
time's flying by
moving so fast
you better make it count 'cause you can't get it back.
All this to say...
be intentional with the way you spend your time.
If life really is about all the meaningless things I've been consumed with, I've made as much contribution to humanity as a breath lost in the wind.
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