Hamster.......

My Thought for this Day.......Are you a 'Never Enough' person? Never tall enough, never warm enough, never rested enough, never this, never that....never enough money in the bank, clothes in your closet. The ' Never Enoughs' lead to the 'Too Much'. Too much to do, too much to be, too much to achieve. Whoa! Stop! You, my friend are a hamster on a wheel......getting nowhere. Close your eyes and visualize your too fat, too cold, too poor self running on the wheel of 'Try as I might, it's not gonna happen'. Then Stop! Listen to me. Your scenery is never going to change. You're always going to stay in your cage, running on that squeaky wheel, going around and around and around. Now listen to me even more carefully. Stop Doing The Same Thing To Your Children!!!!! Their badge of honor is not that they are busy 20 hours a day!! I see it day in and day out. Kids so burned out trying to Be All and End All, they have quit enjoying life at a very young age. Kids that have been put on a hamster wheel that is much bigger and squeakier than yours! Here is my point. A kid has to be a kid at some point. Maybe when they are 15 or 19 or 28. They will eventually be a kid. So please, please, please don't put your heavy 'Never Enoughs' on the backs of your children. Teach appreciation for time to just be. And Be Enough quietly, relaxed, comfortable in the knowledge that life is a path, not a wheel. Live it yourself, then pass it on to those who you lead, guide and direct.