... A brief moment in time? Is that moment in time voluntary or involuntary? Scheduled or not? Does it really make a difference? In fact, perhaps we should value those pauses and become more skilled in their use and benefits, certainly more so than at present. It is good at times to stop the world and get off even if just for a bit. Usually, after such a break we find our tempers cooled, our thoughts more cogent and the end result often exceeding expectations. Even if that is not the result, in any case that momentary pause keeps the door or window open, allowing us to return to the issue in a positive state of mind.
Too many of us learn that fact too late in life. Does not even have to be too much later. It could even be the same day. But in that looking back, that Monday quarterbacking, we can see where we went wrong. Or at least a hint to it. We fiddle around in our mind as to what exactly had happened. How the next time a similar issue arises we know how to remediate. How to better mediate, discuss and solve or approach resolution, views no more hindered by befogged and filthy windows.
Unfortunately, however, in the heat of the moment, the words slip out. The emotions become the overlay over all else. Even as one makes that oral error it is too late. What is spoken can never really be truly taken back. Certainly not the sting of those words. The sting remains. For a long time and the older one gets the more there is to look back on and understand. And regret. There then emerges a deep desire to kick one's own rear for the errors of the past. Often times these errors reemerge at most inopportune moments and the instinct to kick is right back at ya!
Today I have decided to take a pause. I'm so exhausted from that multiple days' flights and active life in between, even when so very joyful. The pause will be greatly appreciated. Perhaps I can even use it to realign some thoughts, needs and desires. Create a better balance and an acceptance that this body of mine is not a traitor in trying to teach me that my body cannot do as it did years ago - even three years ago. Such is life and if we do not take the pauses necessary it will backfire on us. So pause it is at times.
But in the yesterdays, todays and hopefully into the tomorrows, the blog will be generally consistent in posting -as you will be reading and thinking about it. It is telling me the truth. Slow down. Ration demands and the energies. Be able to do almost as much. Necessary enough. But no more than that.
Pause time for all - even the crazed and dangerous false leaders of our times. See how much better a world we could have if these leaders well past their sell by date just shut up for a while. Allow for some clear thought and rationality to enter into the equation.
That was true yesterday.
It remains as true today.
And certainly, a necessary component for successful tomorrows.
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