I find life so interesting. There is no exact rule how you do it but most follow a similar path. The final outcome is the same for all. It ends.
People tackle the path in various ways. Most get so excited at the birth of a child, spend extravagant amounts on toddlers birthday parties and five year old graduations from Kindergarten, have limousine service and spend extravagantly for prom.
The next big events in life are more dependent on the career choices but usually a trade or college is in the future. Ones satisfaction with work can certainly impact quality of life.
Then there’s marriage. Now I know today in the U.S., only 55% of Americans are married, compared to 72% in 1960, but that’s still the norm. Marriage is a trip in itself. You marry this person having no idea how they will turn out, start down the path, live life, and if you are blessed, wake up next to your, old, best friend for a few great years.
Next up is Grand-parenting (greatest gift of all), retirement, maybe a few quality and carefree years, old age, and then you die.
Hopefully during that time one has found love, joy, peace, meaningful work, and eternal life. After all, most of us want to leave the world a better place and hope that our work on earth made a difference and helped others.
What happens is that we look up one day and our house is full of people, every holiday, that we helped to produce, we become slower, develop wrinkles, aches and pains, and find ourselves realizing that the life is short. Our time on earth is but a blink of the eye. And guess what? It’s ok. In fact, it’s life.
If it became the norm to discuss, view, and celebrate all phases of life as much as we do the beginning, it could change our entire perspective on living. My wish is that life, with its pain, sorrow, happiness, love and uncertainty could be accepted and even relished from beginning until end. Time on earth will happen and end. Heads up, out of the sand, and live with mindful anticipation of life as it unfolds.
Answering the Call 