That’s Just the Way I Look at Things

I look at things from my own viewpoint and you look at life through yours. Yesterday, I wrote about people needing each other. There’s so much to be said about that! We strive, we study, we rush here and hurry there and sometimes neglect the most important part of this life–people. I’m thinking especially of our families and our children.

I wonder, when all is said and done and we look back on our years, will we wish we had studied more, earned more money, visited more places, or will we wish we had spent more time with our families and friends? Money has a way of evaporating and those exotic places? Well, they are fun to visit but do they offer caring and fulfillment?

If we had treasure at our feet, how foolish we would be to ignore it or just walk over it and never notice it’s there; yet, sometimes that’s exactly what we do when we don’t take time for each other.

These are just rambling thoughts this morning, but I have more years behind me than I have before me and I guess sometimes, I grow introspective, which is good in some ways, not so good in others. I think about all the busy activities, the hours spent doing chores I thought were important and maybe neglecting to make myself available to those who would have enjoyed a bit of company.

As I wrote yesterday, we have many labor-saving devices, many technological marvels, the chief of which is the computer and the internet. Have you ever thought about how our lives center around the computer? Have you ever thought of the hours it takes away from just plain interaction with our families and friends? We have many thieves of time nowadays and it seems to me the computer is the chief culprit.

But then, I’m sort of old-fashioned in some ways, nostalgic in others, and certainly not up-to-the-minute with radical change. That’s just the way I look at things.

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