Too Little Time to Enjoy Life

By Gary Gzik

It's hard. Our lives are filled with work, family, appointments, things we hate to do, things we wish we could do and of course, things we don't even see coming our way. With all the chaos set before us, enjoying life can sometimes be a little hard.

Unless you work from home, each day likely starts off with commuting into work - traffic that barely moves at a crawl or waiting for a bus or train that either doesn't come or is packed when it finally arrives - years of your life you'll never get back. The stress of road rage gets your blood boiling, blackberries push your workday well into the night, bills are on your mind, commitments are left behind at home, and you just don't have enough time. Not a way we should be living day to day.

So, how are you supposed to go about enjoying the life you have worked so hard to build for yourself? Try relaxing for a few moments and enjoying it with what you have. Here are five ways to get your started:

   1. Take time to breathe. I mean REALLY breathe, deeply and slowly. Take in the smells around you, good and bad. For something different, put a blindfold on and you will be amazed at what you will notice.
   2. Stand still and enjoy the sounds of nature. A babbling brook, a woodpecker, a blue jay or a dove, the crack of a twig indicating an animal is near.
   3. Take along a camera or some binoculars and appreciate the gift of sight that so many people don't have. Notice the colours, the number of rings in a tree stump, the different species of flowers.
   4. Feel things around you. You don't want poison ivy, but why not take your shoes off and feel the grass between your toes? If there is a stream, dip your feet in the water. Walk through some soft moss.
   5. Enjoying the taste of food. Why not take along a picnic lunch. It forces you to slow down, relax and observe your surroundings. When you eat, don't just chew and swallow. Eat slowly and savour the tastes. It takes 20 minutes for your stomach to know you are full. Try new foods, new textures and new spices.

Taking time out of the rat race isn't easy, but life is too short and as Simon and Garfunkel say "Slow Down, You Move Too Fast."

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