Beautiful Life! ?

When I was kid, summers lasted forever. After school ended, we had days and days, weeks and weeks, whole long stretches of time to play kickball, pick wildflowers, or just lie on the grass staring at the clouds. Everyday, my mother took us to the local used book store and bought some books and made it compulsory that we read it. I at times hated that. :) But reading these books was much more fun than reading the school prescribed books. In the evenings we played all the time, and those days were filled with cricket, police and thief and sitting by the campfire.

“How come summers go by so much faster now?” I complained to my close friend one night.

He took my question seriously. “I think it’s because as adults we have too much awareness of time,” he said. “I mean, when you were a kid, you didn't know it was the beginning of July. You just lived for the moment, enjoyed everyday, and then suddenly, your mother would take you to the store to buy school shoes, and you’d find out that school was starting that week.”

I think he’s right. The desire to earn a living and amass wealth has made all of us running restless. We forget that we have a beautiful life around us to enjoy.