Reflections

What Will Today Hold?

• By Abel
• October 1, 2014
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What will today hold?

This is a question that most children relish and many adults fear. Life for most children is still exciting and miraculous. They haven’t arrived at that place where life, living, is just a set of routines that must be endured in order to put food on the table and a roof over head. Life for children is about exploring, learning, and meeting new people to call friends.

For a long time as an adult I’d lost this innate zest for life. And, I must admit, there are still days now and then when it’s hard to find it. But over the last year I’ve had a rebirth of sorts and have begun again to see things with a fresh, unclouded perspective. I no longer always dread what the day will mete out to me. Instead, I delight in what new things I will learn and notice. These things have always been there.   But because I’m more in tune with the little things that make up a day now, they amaze me: the trees blowing in the wind or resting still in an unusual calm, birds flying playfully through the air, the cloudless sky or the patterns formed by the ash colored ones that blanket the heavens – all, awe-inspiring.

This newfound awareness has given me a different outlook most days. And on those days I need an adjustment in my attitude, I can stop, and take in the sights, the sounds, and the smells of the every day and reawaken this childlike curiosity and enthusiasm for life that lies dormant just below my constricting thoughts.

Photo credit: Kevin Dooley