The Sky 5/31/09
I was living my seemingly unending busy life Sunday and stepped outside to take my dog out. I was tensely aware of the short paper I have due in a class I am taking at 8:00am the next day. I was aware of all the things I needed to do for the TweetWagon site and blog to get the week started. I was aware of many other responsibilities which were mangling my appreciation for life. Then I looked up.
I looked up and saw a vast light blue sky with some giant fluffy white, orange, and pink cumulus clouds slowly and quietly drifting by in the glow of the evening sunset. I just stared. I had a quiet voice inside me remind me that there is something to that beautiful overlooking sky that I should not ignore. But what was it?
I stared and thought. What beauty. How lovely that we can be wrapped up in the responsibilities of life and whenever we need to we can just step outside and look up to find peaceful beauty ever looking down at us. It is a reminder that there are good things in life always waiting to be appreciated even when we don’t see them in the heat of the moment.
Good things like cloudy skies, childhood memories, the thought of a loved one, fresh air, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Now, I could mention that by utilizing our services at TweetWagon you can save money as a consumer and have more money in your pocket with which to enjoy life, or make money as a business and be able to further enjoy life. I could mention that we should be thankful for what we have, including money, and, by using TweetWagon, you will not squander your money by paying more for products and services than you have to.
But I think instead I will mention an article I read today on the Reuters website about a woman named Felicity Chapman. Felicity was a woman who had a need. She needed to go back to work after the birth of her child, but also valued the freedom to only work part time to be with her child. She had a problem when she found that it was difficult to work when her availability was so limited.
This is where the lesson of the ability to ‘look up’ at the sky and enjoy life comes in. There is a difference between someone who lives the mundane life of the status quo, never living life to the fullest nor appreciating the wonder in every breath and someone like Felicity Chapman.
Felicity recognized her need and saw it as a marketable business idea. So instead of crying the “woe is me” tune, she became proactive and changed her situation. She started a business and created a working office space/daycare center with flexible childcare services. Moms and dads can use the office space to work while keeping their kids at the daycare in the same building. We hope to list her on our site, but that is not my main point. I want to help motivate you to live ‘looking up’.
Felicity symbolically ‘looked up’. She remembered that life is to be enjoyed not be enslaved by. I want to put her out there as an example that should encourage all of our readers that there is a wonderment in life that is to be enjoyed. So if there is some dream or goal that you have ignored and not pursued then sit down right now and devise a plan to pursue it. If you can’t think of any then you should start by realizing that you should have some goals to pursue. Then pursue them.
We can live our lives looking down at our circumstances; or we can live our lives with our eyes open and ‘look up’, remembering that there is always beauty around us to appreciate, and we are squandering it if we fail to see it and behold it.