Thoughts for Today

My muse has been lazy the past couple of days so I haven't been here to post my thougths.  However, I managed to get her to work for a bit yesterday as the idea that has been floating around for days finally started coming to life on paper.

We had some rainy weather and I was sure the muse would want to work but no, it just wouldn't come out to play, so to speak.  But every night, it was there teasing and tormenting as the thoughts flew by while trying to find sleep.

I should be catching up on some of the work I had planned around here, but when the muse is in this playful mood, it is hard for me to concentrate on anything but what she is dangling in front of me.  So if she decides not to play today, I'll start on another project.  She is jealous when I devote my thoughts to another direction so it may make her come out to help me write down these thoughts she so cleverly puts in front of me in pieces, like a jig saw puzzle and I am to put it all together.  Actually when she feels like working, we make quite a team.  She is there with all these exciting tidbits and I am at my keyboard putting it all together until it makes sense and then we can sit back and look at it, fix it where it needs it or continue on looking for what lies ahead of us and what excitement or drama we can discover.

For now, it seems it is just my muse and me enjoying our little chats here, but I'm hoping as time goes on, that more will join us and comment or maybe contribute as I would love to share some of my friend's work or comments.

Today is Friday, and I saw a post on FaceBook that tickled me and I thought how appropriate.  Someone wrote a letter to Dear Week, explaining that they were leaving for Weekend and it wasn't their fault or was it.  It got my attention as so many times we face the beginning of the week all full of hope and promise but by Friday we either have forgotten or have put it behind us as we look forward to the weekend.  The weekend holds a promise too.  Sleep, fun, parties, travel, shopping and so much more.  Why is it we pack so much to do in such a short time and then when Monday comes along, we grudgingly go back to work facing the week with determination to make it through to the next weekend?

When I was sixteen, a wise old man told me, "Time goes faster as you get older, so slow down and enjoy each day as it comes.  Tomorrow will be here soon enough and once it is gone, you only have yesterday."  Very good advice and I have tried but I know that I get anxious and push the time while I wait for a special day or event.

Now, that I am older, not sure how much wiser, but at least I'm older and I am retired, I have a lot of time to reflect and some days go very slow for me, while others speed by like they are in a race.  I try to take each day and make it special in some way so I don't waste time or hurry time but to enjoy it as it comes.

As a parent and now a grandparent, I think I view time in a different light.  I stop to think that it doesn't seem like it was that many years ago that I was young and had my first child and now she is grown and has a full grown child of her own.  I look at my grandchildren, watching them grow up and wonder how quickly the time can go as they seem to be babies one day and young people the next.

There is no magic potion for time so we can't slow it down or speed it up.  We can only take it and make the best of it while we have it right now.  Maybe we all need to slow down and smell the roses, but I wonder if even that would slow time.  I think we should just enjoy the time we have a little more than being in such a hurried and frenzied mode, looking for that next break time that we can do what we want, when we want and how we want.

Just a few of my thoughts for today.  Now, I'm off to find that muse to see if she wants to work or if she is busy looking for that free time.  Writers don't have the option at times to have much free time.  When the muse and writer team up, they can work for hours or days and really don't care about time or breaks.  They are on a mission and until the mission is accomplished, they are hard at it, forgetting time, forgetting play and sometimes even forgetting sleep.