Why run all the time?!

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This was ironical!

It is the man who is running... And the dogs who are sunning!!!

Are we not always in hurry? We are often running to catch our own tail, and we do not even stop to consider the fact that it might be impossible to do so.

How many of you have played the game of trying to touch the tip of your nose with the tip of your tongue? It is a biological impossibility. The longest tongue cannot reach the part of our anatome that leads our body headlong into all the mess we create for ourselves.

We do not even take a moment to pause the buttons on our ever hectic life and simply keep going on. Were we to press Pause, we would realise the futility of trying to touch the tip of our nose with the tip of our tongue. Rather we would contemplate the physiology of what makes this, the most prominent feature of our face, the least used for its natural uses.

Why have we stopped using our noses to smell out the dangers and the pleasures? What makes this sense the fastes to adapt? How can we be in the moment NOW, and know that we are cared for- always?

e would also pause to let silence prevail rther than the noise that overpowers us in the city each day- day after day. We would be able to look, feel, and hear more completely, and more pofoundly. We would be more open to recieve what the Universe WANTS to channel to us.

The doors keep knocking. The door bells keep ringing. But we are in the slumber that makes us more aware of our alarms to wake up- that too, into a groggy, foggy existence- each moment.

We do not stop- like the dog- to simply let the sun wash over our soul and our body. We do not allow the mother to fill our cup... we are too busy thinking about the next moment to really relish the present one.

And we are all rushing to keep our rendesvous with the only certainty in our life- death.

A poem my children used to sing when they were tiny-

Stop... Look... and Listen!
You don't know what you're missin' till you
Stop...
Look...
'n Listen...

So take a moment- And relish JUST that moment!