I have learned that there comes a time where inevitably we must slow down. We have to back away from over-commitment, stop multi-tasking, turn off the cell phone. Life moves fast and you suddenly are unable to maintain the pace with the 6-minute milers and join the pack of 10- or 11- or maybe even 20-minute milers.
I have reached that point and it is because I am 9 months pregnant. But as I watch my fourth rerun episode of Grey's today, I realized that maybe I should have started the slow down sooner. Maybe we all need to slow down. Sure I am not the first to say that our world is spinning off it's axis at the rate that we try to live our lives. But maybe, just maybe, this can be a reminder to slow down. Not just when life becomes unbearable, but before.
Let's slow down to enjoy both the good times and the bad times. To touch close to our hearts and reflect on what is really important to us. To see what makes our hearts pound a little faster while our minds slow down to focus on just that. Find our passions, seek out opportunities to grown them or develop new ones. To get back in line with our personal values.
The last several months have flown by at warp speed, but there are several moments during them where life has allowed me to pause and fully etch the memories deep into my heart and soul. I am sure that over the coming months I will need to remind myself to stop and appreciate that it will only be a few short months of my life that I will ever have the privilege of introducing a new human to the world--even if that means that sleep is a figment of my imagination and I have become a human vending machine.
Life is moving quickly, and it is up to me, and you to choose to slow down rather than being forced to. And I am happy to have this wonderful man striding right beside me through life, no matter what pace I am currently working in. And especially when I need help getting up off the couch or reaching my feet :)
Here's to new life adventures, to being so excited about this new little life to get here, and to strength in patience as I learn to live, more now than ever before, on the schedule of a potentially very stubborn tiny human.
