Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
We think we can’t do things until we do them. Then we wonder why we didn’t do it earlier. It might be getting up early to write, exercise, or practice something. We wanted to do something that didn’t fit into our lives until we made time for it.
Much of life is making a decision to do something and then doing it. We can’t be more than we are until we do more than we do. That makes sense so what would we like to be accomplishing that we aren’t accomplishing yet? What would we like to do, see, or be? If it is going to happen we are going to have to make it happen by finding a time to fit it into our life and schedule it.
One of the things my husband and I haven’t gotten to is traveling. We are planning our trip to England for next year, and Mom turns one hundred years old. This is a milestone that needs to be celebrated, so the trip to England might be postponed for at least a year.
Planning things is tricky, sometimes if we put things off they might never happen, but if we don’t put them off something better won’t happen. We never know what will happen in our lives or the lives of others, but we can make the best of what we have now. We can enjoy the blessings in our life now. We can laugh and celebrate now. We can invite someone to dinner and find out a couple of months later it was the last dinner we’ll spend with them, and we are happy we got to spend the time with them we did.
This is why we are taking our grandson to meet his great-grandmother and not waiting to do it to celebrate her 100th birthday. We can do it now, and if we are blessed we can celebrate her 100th birthday, but we don’t want to regret not going now when we can. England is not going anywhere, it will still be there waiting for me. My husband was born in England and has always wanted to take me to see his place of birth. He’s been to my hometown in Saskatchewan and seen the farm I grew up on. I want to see where he started his life in London, England.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
Some people never get back to the land of their birth, but some like my daughter-in-law’s grandparents returned for the first time after being gone for seventy years. Life rolls along whether we are accomplishing what we want to or not. We get to make choices in life, and those choices color our lives in ways we might not have considered when we chose them. This is why our choices are so important.
Is there a bigger choice in life than who we marry, and who we have children with, hopefully, the same person? We can change jobs, start businesses, and create a side hustle, but getting in and out of marriages is where we really hurt people.
It seems to me one of the blessings in life is to find a great partner and stick with them through thick and thin, and spend our later years doing things we didn’t have time for when we were busy building a life. If we have a partner we are going through life with we can share our joys and sorrows, go on adventures we might not want to do alone and enjoy the harvest of our lives.
We don’t know what may come, so we need to make our plans and do things while we can. What are the things we really want to see, be, or do in life? What’s possible now?
Do something today that your future self will thank you for. Unknown
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall
Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have. Marianne Williamson
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