I know of no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man
to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
Hello again, and
welcome to our web site.
Sorry, cant' talk now. I'm busy
Isn’t life busy, most people hardly even have time for themselves these days let alone anyone else.
Sometimes it’s work, sometimes it’s the kids and sometimes it is just ourselves applying our own pressures by trying to attempt too many things in a short amount of time.
Everything seems so important – but it’s not. “That’s easy for you to say”, I can hear you all thinking, but it isn’t. It isn’t easy for me to say that at all. My own time is hectic and the only way that I make time for anything, even my own husband sometimes, is to decide that this evening I am not going to do any writing. Or, tomorrow after the children are home from school, I will take them to the park, library or wherever.
While I had the opportunity of living in Greece for 7 years I found out something very interesting about how important everything really is (or isn’t – as it turned out). The people in Greece do not have a proverb about this, they simply live it. For those coming from a western lifestyle, their laid back attitude can drive you insane at first. And then after a while you start to get it, “What’s the rush?"
Because they do not feel the pressure, they do not put the pressure on you. What happens is that they might be a bit late, but then when you are late there is no-one grinding their teeth at you.
Because you don’t have to worry about their attitude towards you for being late, there is no need for you to put the pressure on anyone else who you would usually blame for your lack of punctuality. It felt good living like that after I got used to it. It is true that it's hard to live like this when the people around you are not but you don’t need to let their stress be your stress.
Learn to slow it down, take time out for people that you love because they are the ones that will keep you sane. Time your events with more space in between and learn to say no to things that you know are not possible to do without busting a gut to get it done and then... enjoy your day.
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