Have You Ever Noticed...

that things seem to snowball on you? (Can't you hear me doing my Andy Rooney voice when I say that? And if you don't know who Andy Rooney is then you probably aren't old enough to understand any of this blog anyway!) When things are going a little crazy it tends to perpetuate and a few more things get crazy until next thing you know you are caught in a current and hoping to ride out the waves. Maybe it is just me....but I seem to be seeing that more and more lately so I'm sitting here asking myself does stress and anxiety lead to more stress and anxiety? Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy...that once we start down that road we continue to see chaos around us? Does stress self breed and lead to more stress?

As I've said several times in these blogs recently, I want off this crazy ride. I want life to have purpose and meaning. We get up, we go to our respective jobs, we do our daily routines but how many times a day to you truly feel inspired or engaged in what you are doing? Is our lot in life to pull the 9-5 or as many of us experience the 10-12 hour days? When did we start allowing our work to dictate to us that it is okay to expect us to work those long days and not receive anything in return and I do mean expect us. I know I'm a little late with a labor day post as that ended a few hours ago but, it is a time to celebrate the things we've achieved as laborers but it is also a time to reflect on how far we still need to come. Millions of American workers don't have paid leave, sick or vacation. Millions of American workers don't have health benefits. We as a nation find that acceptable. We as a nation allow our children to be raised to believe that this is what they are meant to do...to go to school so they get a good career that pays them a lot of money but, what is the real reward in that? It shouldn't be about the money, or the material things our careers provide us. It should be about the satisfaction of a job well done. It should be about the relationships we build along the way. It should be about the people we help when we find a new treatment for cancer or when we make sure the little old lady who is homebound has groceries on her table because someone delivered them. If you died tomorrow would your legacy be your career, the 12 hour days you put in at the office or would it be something else? Do you really want that to be what you are remembered for? Or do you want the people around you, who know you to remember how you made it to every game your kid played in or how you and your wife still had date night after 20 years of marriage. Life is short...live each day as if it were your last because you never know when it just might be. I know we've all heard that before but, we get so lost in the day to day shuffle of errands, work and life that we forget that life is here to be lived and not just another day to get through.

This is Pandora waxing philosophical....xoxo