Do you remember the simple days?  You know, when you were a kid and the biggest challenge you faced was whether you could get in 10 more minutes of playing with your friends before your mom called you in for supper?  THOSE were the days my friend.  And somehow that supper always seemed like a feast!  Unless there was spinach or broccoli, and then it was torture.  But usually it was fantastic!  So my question to you is why is it any different now?

Sure you’ve got a mortgage, maybe some kids of your own, and other payments to make.  So you go to work or earn money somehow to pay that.  But really, what makes our lives seem so different now?  Why does everything seem so busy, so important?  It could be that you’re not living life on your own terms.  So what you’re doing is modeling your entire life after the 10 minutes surrounding when your mom would call you in for supper!

Maybe, just maybe, you ought to think about what made the other 23 hours and 50 minutes of life so great when you were a kid.  I don’t mean to sound simplistic.  The fact is that there are pressures on us as adults, parents, employees and contributing members of society.  I’m not suggesting that you become reckless or irresponsible, quite the contrary.  What I recommend is that you reach back into your memory and explore how it felt to be carefree as a kid.  Then with that feeling in mind, look for times during the day that you can return to that feeling of “no worries”.

Some people might point out that this is just meditation.  Well, that’s fine with me.  And if I’m lucky, somebody’s going to call me in for supper too!