Time...

We just celebrated our oldest daughters 18th birthday.  My husband called me to ask me how I felt about it.  In that very moment I felt a sense of loss and bewilderment.  The loss because for me, eighteen years have literally flown by in a blink.  Bewilderment because I felt like... what the hell have I done in 18 years?  He said to me... "Irene, you've been raising the kids... your life has been on hold for a long time." 

I didn't want to look at it that way.  Yes I have been raising our children for 18 years and continue to do so, however I still pursued my own dreams along the way.  Have I manifested or accomplished everything I had set out to do all those years ago?   Some of it yes, and some of it not yet.  I just can't get over how fast the time went and what about the next 18 years of my life?  Will they go just as fast?

I have promised myself that I will conciously live in each moment of every day.  I will not jump to the future or live in the past.  I am choosing to be "HERE".   

Time can be a blessing or a theif in the night.  Take the time to be grateful for your blessings.  Take the time for your family and friends and most of all take the time for you.   Be here in this moment in this time.   "You are here."  Where else could you be?