"Carpe Diem" Horace
I have come to the conclusion that time is elastic.
I believe time has an uncanny ability to expand or
contract depending on what we focus on at any given
moment.
Sometimes minutes feel like hours and hours can take
days.
Other times it feels like everything passes by in a blur.
Before I know it I am planning tomorrow and tearing out
the corner of the diary page that marks the passing of
another week.
I am currently on holiday and feel like I am packing an
eternity into each and every day. There is more than
enough time to take a morning walk along the beach,
swim in the surf, read my book and fall asleep, read and
sleep some more. There is time to run in the afternoon,
luxuriate in the hot shower afterwards and sit watching
the evening light reflect on the water as my boyfriend
Chris dishes our left over chips to the hungry gulls. I
have been chatting to strangers, savouring each and
mouthful of my fruit muesli for breakfast, writing,
sharing ideas and most importantly making a date each
evening to watch the sun go down on another day.
While I am on holiday, my time is precious and as a
result I am savouring each and every moment.
Now I know that we cant be on holiday all of the time,
most of us have to work and this includes
commuting both ways to and from an office each day,
doing all our domestic
chores and everything else that our busy modern lives
demand.
What I do know is that my week while on holiday feels
like it has
expanded to accommodate more than three times what
it could normally hold. I believe that this is partly
because I have been focused on and conscious to,
each and every thing that I have been doing. Living in
the moment.
My resolve as I re-enter my working days in London is
to focus on some of the things that I enjoy in my daily
routine in the same focused manner. I will be taking
time out to celebrate the little pleasures and chores in
the hope that time will expand for me just as it is doing
now. Sharyn Wortman
