I love being around and with people but I'm finding some of my best time spent lately alone with my thoughts.
How often do you take time out to reflect on your day, your work, your life? Not many people do. Running allows me great reflection time as I'm finding skiing does this week. I spent most of the day today skiing alone which I'm perfectly content with and find myself in interesting conversations with others on the gondola or chair lift. Many people unhappy, scared, tired, anxious, bummed out, and so on. I ask them why and they can never seem to explain. Then they ask me and I say "I'm really happy, what a beautiful day." The response I usually get...? "Yeah, it is" followed by a smile. I've tried many times in my life to like certain things, fit in to certain groups, stay at a job just because of the pay, stay in relationships just because and I'm just truly awakened at 34 (luckily that early I think!) that it wasn't me. http://youtu.be/XKl8hDr-xm4 Along with many other great things, I'm finding I'm more of myself lately and I'm looking forward to much more of it. I hope you do too, if you haven't already. My muse today was brought to you by my morning skiing partner Joe. At 77, Joe self-handedly reversed his pre-diabetic diagnosis three years ago by becoming a vegan. No medication, no doctors visits, no nothing. All just by personal willpower (which he said was a little challenging as he did it cold turkey) but he also said at his age he still feels great every morning he wakes up, ready to take on whatever the new day brings. It was also funny that Joe was dressed and ready to ski this morning, waiting for me at the front door so we could catch the first lift of the day. He heard the untouched groomed runs were amazing first thing in the morning. As we headed down the run (he in the lead) I saw him raise his poles, look up at me and shout "I think I've died and gone to heaven!" And then proceeded to beat me to the chairlift.
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