I would like to thank my wife for providing this gem to me over tens years ago. We were only dating and she was witnessing me (at work) getting crushed by a mountain of stress and obligations. When I received it, my perception of time slowed and it pulled me right out of that funk.
“The true magic in life is only found through our relationships”
The crazy thing is she wrote this before we had ever met. It just makes me think that all of us should focus on what is in our heart. Creating from the heart plants seeds that will grow and reveal themselves in the future (for people we never even knew existed).
I hope you find a measure of value as I did that fateful day. Be well.
-MJ
Do you find your life to be full of stress?
You look around and it’s all a mess?
You feel like you hardly have a moment to treasure,
Well wake up now! Life is all about the simple pleasures.
How often do you stop and look at the trees?
Feel the warmth of the sun and the cool of the breeze.
Take time to do this, these things can’t be measured
Life is all about taking time to love these simple pleasures.
Why give in to the world and yell and complain,
This means nothing in life, you have nothing to gain.
When you’re old on your death bed would you want to look back?
And realize you wasted your life traveling down the wrong track?
Just stop right here, just stop and think….
Mindlessly stare at this page, try not to blink.
How much time have you wasted on things that don’t matter?
You’ve screamed and yelled and you’ve gotten madder and madder.
Only you can change this, you have the power within,
So stop, and realize the simple pleasures life can bring.
Whether your twenty or fifty or on your very last breath.
Take the time to appreciate things that count before death.
Look up to the sky, on a blue cloudless day,
Close your eyes and enjoy what the birds have to say.
Cause it is moments like this which we should all treasure,
At the end of our time, a good life is filled with these simple pleasures.
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