I've been thinking alot lately about my life.  Maybe it's been some of the current happenings and or the mending of fences so to speak, but it's been alot of reflecting. So many things have changed in my life in just two years. Some huge and some small, but all significant changes nonetheless. Still the same woman with high hopes and dreams just trying like so many of us to weed out what is not working for me in my life. I recently read that the first twenty years are for trials, mistakes and alot of heartache. The next twenty are for healing and then after forty you're just supposed to accept and move on. If only life was that easy. I'd never stop smiling if that were the case, but I'm working on it. I came across this quote and I wanted to share.

"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgement, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer,  to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when the technology can bring this letter to you and a time when you can share this with insight or to just hit delete..."

*George Carlin 

So....   

REMEMBER -  Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.