While my husband was away on vacation to see his family in The Netherlands, I began to miss him, of course, the instant he left our home.
Without him, our house is just that: a house. But when he is there, then we have a HOME. I am an adult and I was feeling like a child: all of a sudden alone.
A child has no notion of time so when you cross that doorstep, he really doesn’t know when you’ll be back. Being an adult, I knew when he would be back and could reason with myself at a more intellectual level because unlike a child, I do have the notion of time and knew when he would be back, fortunately.

And I was thinking:
I was thinking how hard it was to be separated from the ones you love and in how many ways one can be separated from her beloved.

I was thinking about soldiers working far away, men and women having to travel for business reasons, or being separated for a short period of time because one is on vacation somewhere, somehow. I was thinking about mothers leaving their children at the daycare center and recalled how hard it was for me when it was my time to do this; it broke my heart each time to have to go to work and leave them behind in someone else’s care. I was thinking that physical separation is difficult but also, separation from the hearts was even more hard.

I read a book by Mitch Albom (For One More Day) and I was thinking what I would do if I would have one more day with someone I love who isn’t there by my side any longer. And it really hit home. What if, if only, we could have “that” person back for one more day, what would we do with that extra time.

I don’t know about you but I would let the floor a little less clean so I could be with that person instead, I would listen more and talk less, I would smile more and cry more too, I would refrain from any negative comments, would care more. Yes, that’s it: I would care more. In our life nowadays we simply don’t take the time to take our time. And we should make time.

Why not phone that aunt you love so much, or that friend you so liked to see and shared so much with back then; why not make time for your children and read that story they want you to read or go play for a moment that game they so like to play with you. There are so many ways, so many reasons with which we can make time, if only a little, to be THERE a bit more.

I am guilty as charged: many times I should have left the dust in its place (it will wait for you, trust me!!) and sit to chat with a friend or go to see someone that needed to be cheered up a little. We all have good reasons not to. Not to phone, not to go, not to take the time for.

In this era, we seem to have forgotten to live. A lot of people live to work and accumulate things but they don’t have the time to enjoy those things.
Others are caught on the internet (like you right now…LOL) for hours (not you of course!) instead of walking the dog or spending time in the real world.
Seasons are a marvelous invention from God an I live in a place where I can have the 4 of them! And each one has its own fantastic colours, moments, activities to do.

But I digress from my first idea.
The good thing about blogging is that it is up to you to do what you want with your blog and you can digress if you want — but I don’t want to, so I put myself back on track!

In a nutshell, it is never too late to begin: begin to live more, be more, feel more, enjoy more and most of all, love more!
Someone wiser than me said one day “each day is a gift not a a given right” and you can’t argue with the truth…So, like you, I will try to live more, love more,be more…