But What Now?

2008 is finally here. I know everyone laments how quickly time flies, including me, but when we want something badly, time just feels way too slow. Once I retire, of course, I want time to be less meaningful. In other words, I hope not to think of it much at all and only enjoy my present moment time.

Enjoying my present moment time is surely something I can do today. Today is a holiday, so I slept in late and then enjoyed a wonderful cheese souffle with my sweetie. We even had champagne with it… It is New Years after all.

While I was whipping the egg whites, I watched my young neighbor, who is about 6, bouncing a small, pink New Years balloon against the window over and over again and remembered doing that myself as a kid. I remembered how I could entertain myself for a long time bouncing balloons. And then I thought about transitions. Transitioning from child to teenager, teenager to young adult, young adult to older adult.

As I write about it now, I would love to replace my worries about pleasing people on my team, my boss(es), even myself(!) with the same abandon of bouncing a simple, small, pink balloon on the window. I almost wrote ’spending time bouncing…’ and thought better of if. How interesting that we equate time with spending as though it’s money we can earn more of or have too little of.

Happy New Year to anyone who reads this. And no matter when you read it, I hope you are having the time of your life!