Is it just me or does time seem to pass more quickly as you get older? One thing I know for sure is that time is a very precious commodity. If only we could be more mindful of that fact and use it more wisely. If we were more mindful, I'm sure we would most likely spend much more time living in the moment and much less time worrying about the future and agonizing about the past. After all, the only time that we truly have is the time we find in the present moment. The NOW is the only place that life really takes place!

This reminds me of one of my favorite sayings. I don't know who the author is but I have referred to this statement many times in the past. I have used it as a reference and teaching point for others as well as a focus and guide for myself. I'm sure many of you will be familiar with it but it's definitely worth repeating nonetheless. It really has a lot to say regarding where we should focus our attention and how we should spend our time. I find it both poignant and accurate. It goes:

The past is history. The future is mystery. The "now" is a gift. That's why they call it the "present."

I just love that saying. It just hits the nail right on its proverbial little head. So I suggest that you give yourself the gift of the "present" today and enjoy each and every moment. The time is now. If you can start enjoying life in the moment more, you won't fret and agonize about the future and past! What a wonderful gift that would be!!

Well that is my way of thinking about life. People are like how did this come about or what made me change. Well few things happened in my life over the past few years. I went thru my early adult life and there was Grandpa Tony. He was always there to fall back on when when help was needed. I really did not know how much he did or the weight he carried on his shoulder untill I awoke one june morning and he was gone. At the moment he died I was staying with him while me and my wife where going to school. At that minute I was going to school full-time and working 30 or so hours a week part-time. Now not only did I have a pregnant wife to care for, I had all these people that he had been taking care of and supporting. And none of these people where working or helping out in anyway. At that moment I knew the weight that Tony had been on his shoulders. Then a month later her came my daughter. At that moment things changed again. See taking care of all these other people if it came down to it I could walkaway and let them fend for themselves. But this little life could not do that, and then at that moment having to support someone other than myself turned from being this duty to this great joy.

Now, There is another thing in life that I learned early on, and that is just one question. A friend put this to me when I was like 15 or 16. He said do not ask yourself what will happen to you if you act. But ask yourself what will happen if you do not act.

Now that I am sitting here writing about this, another thing pops into my head and its an old Indian saying. "Anyone can be Brave from a distance, but it takes true courage to be brave up close."

I am looking to start a life long friendship that will turnout to be the greatest Love Story Ever Told!!! Now let me tell you a little story here. I really would like to have and would be maybe so luck to have what my grandparents had. My grandma had been married several times. She had been divorced then had a husband passaway. Then she met my Grandpa. They where married for ever and there love went well into the next life. In the early 1990's my grandma started getting sick. She was in and out of the hospital and then nursing homes. My grandpa kepted here at home as long as he could and as often as he could. He would tend to her well into the night. Then he would get up early for work and do the day all over. The only nite he took for himself was Monday nights to go Bowling. He never missed bowling hell or high water. Then after she got to sick to stay at the house he would get off of work. Stop by the home to see her. Then he would run around, then he went back there for dinner and would sit there with her watching TV untill the news or when she went to sleep like they had been doing for decades. Then he would come home go to sleep and do it all over again. God I do not know how he ever found the time or got the sleep he needed. He worked, tended to the family, and still to his wife. Then after she died he would visit the her still everyday. In the summer he would tend to the grass and flowers. But everyday he would stop by. He would not stay long, and sometimes he would not even stop. He wold just drive thru. Then when he could not drive after he got sick he would have someone drive him over there or he would have one of us stop by there. But that was not often. He did not get sick untill the last six months of his life. And he was out driving and going about his day up untill the day he passed. The thing that got him down was when the Doctor told him he would not be able to bowl anymore because they had taken out 1/2 his lung. After they took out his lung from cancer he recovered and got back to where he was. He was looing forward to getting back to bowling the next fall. In May the Doctor told him he would not be able to bowl anymore. He passed away a month later. That is what I would love to have and find. I person that I can grow old with, that will not only be a mate but also a best friend.

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