I read this quote from Mitch Albom today:
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
As I check my calendar, my GPS, count down days until deadlines, there is comfort in stepping back and remembering that we made it all up. This life. How to live it. We made up the cages and the victories. Sometimes I want to be the bird, never late for my own life, just flying. I won’t even know if I’m going forward and I won’t care.
With Love,
Natalie