intention for march: slow life down.

when i was little,

i remember distinctly my

evil uncle brent

(a title he relished and reinforced with constant good-hearted teasing)

telling me to enjoy life now

because as i get older

it is going to go by

faster and faster and faster

and that although a year may seem like an eternity

to an eight-year-old,

once you get into high school

and then beyond that,

the years just whizz past.

at the time,

i thought he was crazy

but it turns out

he was right.

since officially entering adulthood,

i find myself often mulling over the fact that one school year

as a child seemed to take forever to complete

and that by the time a two-month long summer vacation was over,

i couldn't even remember the beginning of it...

it seemed so long ago.

i started wondering what it was about adult life

that made time go by so fast.

is it because, as we get older, each passing year

is a smaller and smaller fraction of our total life?

...or, is it because as we leave the time of milestones

(graduating high school, finishing first year, then second year...)

we get lost in the routine of the every day

and we tend to put our heads down and just get through life,

rather than really enjoying & living every day to it's fullest?

i've started to believe it's the latter.

today it's march first

and i can't believe that two months of 2011

have already flown by.

so my intention for this month

is to slow life down.

what better way to do this than by making sure to

*notice*

*enjoy*

*appreciate*

every moment & every day?

to put this plan into action,

i'm going to begin a daily practice of meditation

(something i've been terrible at before,

so i plan on starting small - a few minutes at a time- and working my way up)

to help myself live more in the now

and see the moment as it is

and i'm going to journal daily, even if it's just something small

to mark the day and the things that happened.

hopefully in these ways

i'll be able to look back on every day

and have it take up a bit of meaningful space in my mind

so that all these days don't end up just blending together

under the general title of spring.

do you notice life seems to move faster than it used to?

what do you do to slow life down?

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