Daily Inspirational Message for February 20, 2014
All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.
- Osho
The other night, I had dinner with a friend who just earned her doctorate. It has been a very long and challenging journey to this huge accomplishment, but at last she’s made it. When asked what she’s doing with her time now that she’s accomplished this feat, she replied, I’m trying to calm the $%#! down, which elicited a lot of laughs. It also reminded me of how we all get so wrapped up in whatever we think is important in this moment that we start to blow things way out of proportion, take things way too seriously, and forget that everything in life is temporary. Life can be an arduous, woeful trek up a never ending mountain, but it can also be an easy walk on the beach if we simply remember to lighten up and enjoy ourselves.
- Osho
The other night, I had dinner with a friend who just earned her doctorate. It has been a very long and challenging journey to this huge accomplishment, but at last she’s made it. When asked what she’s doing with her time now that she’s accomplished this feat, she replied, I’m trying to calm the $%#! down, which elicited a lot of laughs. It also reminded me of how we all get so wrapped up in whatever we think is important in this moment that we start to blow things way out of proportion, take things way too seriously, and forget that everything in life is temporary. Life can be an arduous, woeful trek up a never ending mountain, but it can also be an easy walk on the beach if we simply remember to lighten up and enjoy ourselves.