At times it's more important to slow down and enjoy the moment

There's a walking trail in one of the parks I've had once visited, that winds its way leisurely around a little pool, through green grassy lawns, a small wooded area, along a rivulet and eventually emerges on the other side. People negotiate its many twists and turns as they get their daily dose of exercise. A pleasant walk indeed through morning mist and dew.

But none too surprising , there were shortcuts invariably at almost every turn. Little paths worned out through the grass by people who have been programmed by life to seek out the shortest distance between two points. Has this world gone completely mad? Why would someone whose sole purpose in the morning was to exercise or enjoy the outdoors want to take a shortcut? Yet its sad but true. Man is always hurrying..Hurrying to get things he wants or thinks he wants.

Carrying on on this, I think, we negotiate life the same way. We try to get through it in the least possible time. Who has time to smell the flowers? Just trample them underfoot as we carve another shortcut through life.

It's a beautiful life, but who has time to notice? Life expectancy has increased but its benefits have been nullified by our distorted perception of time. We are living faster than the speed of life. We are literally racing to our deaths. If you are a participant in the rat race, get off the track. Let the die-hards pass you on the way to the finish line.

The secret of life is not to be the one to finish it first, but the one to enjoy it the most. Don't live speedily; live abundantly.