Month: June 2025

I know a lot of people who have a problem with celebrating their birthdays every year. And it seems the older they get the harder time they have. Maybe they’re focusing on the wrong thing. I would imagine it wasn’t a problem when they were a kid. In fact, if you want to follow the directions of how to celebrate your day? Watch a child.

Maybe we could choose to take a different perspective of how we view each and every passing year on this earth.

There’s no doubt, the older you get the birthday’s seem to arrive much sooner than in the past, but my gratitude has also grown for my time on this earth. You want to get a bird’s eye view of the gifts in your life, take note of all the people who choose to reach out to you on your special day to wish you well. The gratitude you have for these moments can deepen the relationships with the people around you and enrich each and every day to attract even more wonderful people into your inner circle.

I’d like to think we can see each and every day with breath in our lungs as a gift. And yes, this includes Birthdays.

I feel like I’m in a constant tug-o-war with my ability to remain in the present moment without wondering, “what’s next?”

I’m not quite sure how I got here, but I will tell you it’s quite a challenge for me to keep my mind still and focused with the tasks at hand.

Have we become completely incapable of being? Not doing. But, just being?

I hope we haven’t. Maybe we just need a reminder every once in a while. A time that we set everything aside and remain still. Only for a moment.

Over time, we can expand that time as we calm ourselves into the space we’ve chosen.

Maybe – just maybe – we can get back to a place we remember well and find peace and stillness in order to reset and rejuvenate ourselves. A place where we get back to who we are; human beings. Not human doings.

I have to be reminded quite often to stand in someone else’s shoes for even just a brief moment in time in order gain empathy for others in order to take focus off myself, my own problem and what I think is so important.

It’s oh so very easy to get stuck in our perspective of the world and never see otherwise. However, it can only take a second to choose to see the world from someone else’s eyes.

In doing so, we become more empathetic, a bit softer and maybe – just maybe more loving.

Who couldn’t use more Love? I know I can.