Enjoy the Moment.

"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow and with a view to hasten if onward, we recall the past to stay as it is too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wonder through our hours which are not here, regardless of the moment that is actually our own." Blaise Pascall.

Which reminded me of Robert Burn's wee mouse, whose winter den he overturned with his plough and whom he envied because he didn't look back and regret, or look forward and fear.
And it reminded dear husband of Bruce Springstiens "Glory Days".

I am very nostalgic, and definately do a lot of wishing time away - from how long until hubby returns from trips away, to when I can get back to bed (when I have to get up in the morning and reassure myself it is only really a few hours before I can get back into it.)

So when I got up at 7am this morning after my usual poor nights sleep, I turned on the computer while waiting for the kettle to boil, and had my quote for the day ready by the time I took coffee up to husband.
I looked forward to the 10hr work day ahead, and felt genuine. I had a lovely shift, only looked at my watch to reassure myself I had enough time to achieve all that I planned to, enjoyed everyone's company and came home to a delicious dinner cooked by himself.
This was easy today.
Going for a wee snooze now, before getting ready to dance the old year out, and the new year, and new decade, in.

Preparation Begins

To help me in my new discipline of positive thinking, I am going to post a quote a day from Bhuddhist Philosophy, which I will hopefully have recieved each morning from my husbands iphone app! (so no sneaking an extra 5 mins in bed on an early shift) and then I will endeavour to fit this approach into my day, no matter what happens, along with what ever accumulated wisdoms I may have gathered (if not absorbed.) Having taken a wee tour around my mind, recently, it is a bit scary in there, and I intend to give it a good scrubbing out.
I hope I will be able to blog this effectively without exposing my treacherous thoughts, or embarrassing my family, so whilst it will be as light-hearted an expose as possible, it could be pretty dull. I will add my attempts to get running and painting again and the whole thing may have petered out by the 5th of January.............
Turn away now, if you don't want to witness the scene.