New Eyes

Thought For The Day

What is treacherous is not so much what happens as how well prepared you are for it. Life happens at the speed of light and getting ready for it is what you spend your life doing.

Life has a way of lulling you into a kind of blase attitude, convincing you that your life has little meaning, no excitement, not much in the way of prospects for the future. Then, in the midst of your complaints of being a public service announcement something happens in your life to shake the very earth you stand on. It could be receiving a large amount of money, an injury or a hidden condition found in you that calls for some serious decisions but, whatever the event, it gives you a new perspective, a new set of eyes. 

Now, the mundane, predictable acts of living performed by you and those around you take on a whole new meaning. If you are serving your country in the armed forces there are conditions that threaten you every moment of the day and night. There is no safe place and you must be alert at all times. If you are going to work, shopping for groceries, directing a merger or performing surgery there are trip points and land mines at every step. We have just become desensitized to them. When one of those moments wakes us from our walking sleep, we are surprised. 

This is your moment, your fifteen minutes of fame, your day, your life. Live it with new eyes every day. Don't quit before the miracle!

©Herb Ratliff, May 14, 2012, All Rights Reserved