I spend a lot of time hurrying. Hurrying through the store so I can get home and do chores...which I hurry through so I can go work out...which I (attempt to) hurry through so I can be done...so I can hurry somewhere else.
Hurry, hurry, hurry.
And of course, at every turn, are interruptions. Slow lines and stupid drivers and people who have somehow awakened with (no doubt) the goal of being my number one annoyance of the day.
Where did joy go?
Where did the smiles go? The pausing to find 1000 gifts hidden in a life? Am I too busy to see them? Sometimes I am.
Yesterday, one of the girls I work with sent this video to the office, and Lynne and I stopped to watch it. The music itself gave me goose bumps, but what I loved most were the people in the crowd.
The kids climbing up light poles to see...
...the babies bouncing to the beat...
...the just-as-hurried-as-I-am men and women pausing to catch their breath and smile.
We need those moments.
Seriously. Need them.
Find some joy in the little moments today?
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5 comments:
That was neat! I wish I was part of a band or something like that. It would be neat just to show up and put on a show for whoever is around. But the truth is I can hardly play the radio.
:)
Um, yeah, I definitely need this reminder, especially today. It's one of those rushing-around days, and I think I just got the message to slow down. :)
I would absolutely hate this music if someone made me dress up and go sit and listen to it. But running into it on the street . . . that would be cool.
I've never seen a flash mob in real life - think it would be cool. (But I don't want to dress up for it either!)
Slowing down...is good. I remind myself again....
...I wouldn't have the guts to PARTICIPATE in something like that. Just watch.
Good stuff! I was just thinking earlier "what happened to flash mobs?" LOVE "Ode to Joy" as well!
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