Might As Well Dance!

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just
because they haven’t thought about it, don’t have it on
their schedule, didn’t know it was coming, or are too rigid to depart
from their routine.

I was thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic
who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort
to cut back. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more
flexible. How many people will eat at home because
someone didn’t suggest going out to dinner until after something had
been thawed? Does the word “refrigeration” mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence
while you watched television? I cannot count the times I called
my friends and said, “How about going to lunch in a half
hour?” only to hear an excuse like ‘I can’t, I have work to do; I
brought my lunch, I wish I had known yesterday; I had a late
breakfast; It looks like rain.’ Some of them may die tonight,
so you may never have lunch together.

Because we cramso much into our lives, we tend to schedule
our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to
ourselves when all the conditions are perfect! We’ll go back
and visit the grandparents when we get the baby toilet-trained.
We’ll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We’ll
go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get
shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer.
One morning, we’ll awaken, and all we have to show for our lives
is a litany of “I’m going to,” “I plan on,” and “Someday, when
things are settled down a bit.”

When anyone calls my ‘seize the moment’ friend, she is open to
adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new
ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her
for five minutes, and you’re ready to trade your bad feet for a
pair of rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips didn’t touch sausage for years. Being from the Midwest,
I love grilled sausages. It’s just that I might as well apply
it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the
digestive process.
The other day, I picked up a grilled footlong at a restaurant.
If my car had flipped on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now, go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to, not
something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon
and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call
and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry-go-round or listened
to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly’s
erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you
run through each day on the fly? When you ask “How are you?” did
you listen to their reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred
chores running through your head? Ever told your child, “We’ll do
it tomorrow”? And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch?
Let a good friendship die? Just call to say “Hi”?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift.
Thrown away.
Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the quiet voice before the song
is over.

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we
might as well dance!”
by David Sieker

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