Hurry up and live

I'm driving home on my dinner break tonight and I see the beautiful sunset pictured here. I never take pictures while I'm driving...except this once. (If there are any other pictures on this blog that appear to have been taken while I was driving, they are all mere apparitions.) I thought the resulting picture was interesting. It shows the blur of the car next to me, right before I hit it because I was trying to take a picture.....................ok, so I'm kidding about the 'hitting the car next to me' part. The blur of the car speaks to the speedy lives we live. We spend so much time rushing around being busy, we sometimes forget to live. If you spend too much of your life in this mode, you will miss the important things. You will be focused on getting through your life, not experiencing it. Isn't it about the journey and not so much the destination? (Not necessarily a reference to an Ember Swift song, but an important message none-the-less.)

The other thing I see is the red lights. Thank goodness for those, otherwise I probably would have been t-boned by traffic coming through the intersection I was crossing when I took this photo. (Again, I NEVER do that when I drive...) There's a deeper message in those red lights though, isn't there? They were telling me to STOP and take in the beautiful sunset happening in the sky; to witness the changing colors as this day went to sleep, to rest for another dawn. It's probably a good thing I didn't stop in the middle of that intersection though. Something kept me going. Maybe it was the thought of kissing my love as I walk through the door, maybe it was the yummy leftovers from last night's dinner, or maybe it was the car behind me that would have rammed into the back of the tour bus had I stopped at that moment. It was probably all of the above, but I managed to snap this shot as I hurried home. I managed to capture the moment the universe wanted me to stop and take in.

The moral of this story is...well, there are probably a few. Don't rush through your life and forget to live it. Take time to experience the journey that is yours and yours alone. Don't take pictures while driving and, whatever you do, DON'T stop in the middle of an intersection to look at the sunset. ;-)

Peace on ya, peeps.