Dearly beloved, are you listening?

I don’t know why I’m writing this exactly. It’s certainly not for the audience, but perhaps because this thought is such a relevant topic in my life right now. Lately there’s one major problem with society that has come to my attention (of course this isn’t the only problem. I could go on about society’s problems forever, but I’ll leave that for another time). As I grow older and life becomes an increasingly complex, busy mess, I’ve come to realize that some of the most important things in life are the smallest. The most seemingly insignificant. These things are often overlooked and lost in translation amongst a flurry of work schedules, the state of the union as well as the world, and all of the other unpleasant things that plague your average working-class citizen.

We live our lives stumbling back and forth, from point A to point B, from one ‘significant’ event to another. This may be what is defined as normalcy in this day and age; however, what about all of the things that we miss in between point A and point B? I was in Adrian this past Monday, and I found myself with some extra time between my last class and my guitar lesson. About an hour and fifteen minutes, to be exact. I could have just sat in my car in the parking lot and waited for 2:30 to come like I usually do, but I got the sudden urge to take a walk. I set off with no particular purpose or direction, and it wasn’t long before downtown suburban Adrian became like a whole new world.

I have lived in this area all my life and the fact that there are so many unfamiliar areas in what I thought was a familiar town astonished me. It really made me think. If I managed to overlook so much of a town I thought I knew, what else might I be missing whilst rushing through life? The point is, people, is that it’s commendable to have long term goals, but it is counterproductive to lose track of your life in the moment as well. Take a chance to stop and go do something you haven’t done before, see something you haven’t seen before. Life’s all about discovery, isn’t it? The biological clock is ticking, and too many people are wasting all of their time focusing on what’s going to happen next week, next month, or next year. There is too much to see in this world to let it all go to waste. Live a little.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss out on anything that this life has to offer, and I don't plan to.