Thought and Poem

Thought and Poem – September 3, 2014

Did you imagine your life turning out the way it has? No-Way-Jose…I did NOT! Especially the part of my life that has to do with “time” and how it has flown by so quickly…but not before leaving behind the “changes” that we go through getting there.

I think back in my younger years when I had all this energy bottled up inside me that I would think that I had better get going in finding out how I was going to use this energy or else…time was going to use it up for me. It did not take me long but I can look back and honestly say that most of my energy and time was used up getting older as I raised my children. I am stunned at how I could multi-task around their needs as infants, then as toddlers, and so on and so on, all the while working a job outside the home, and maintaining other responsibilities that come with family life. Yet, as long as I could keep up with my children as they aged, I never really noticed that I too had aged; that time was robbing me of my youth.

Often during these years, I felt as if “time” played a game with my life. There were years where I was so busy I didn’t even know time was passing, some years where they did not pass by fast enough and then the years where time went about at a normal pace. Maybe I felt this last bit of time that went by at a “normal pace” because these did not seem to bother me as much. The truth of the matter is that by the time I got to this point “time” had run me ragged that I had become numb to the effects and blind to the fact that as my children aged…so did I. I need grandbabies…these will get me feeling energetic and young again!

What about you? What part in the game of “time” did you notice yourself aging? Share your thoughts with us…Jeanne Claire Probst

Time

Let’s play a game,

And see if we can tame,

“Time” from moving forward so fast,

So we can all stay younger longer and in our youthfulness bask.

We’ll roll the dice to see who goes first,

And then we’ll turn in our gray hairs for whatever they are worth.

On our next turn we will land on the “energy” space,

And this will allow us to run faster than we have ever run before, and with a herd of running horses, we will be able to keep pace.

When we roll the dice again,

On this turn we will start to live our lives more fully…so “bring it on,” let our new life begin.

Then we will replace all the worn body parts, and get the new parts we need,

And when all have had this turn, then with the game we will proceed.

For our last roll, we will harness “time,”

And not let it move forward in your life or mine.

We will all be winners in these game, if these things we could do,

So may the “game makers” produce such a game…one for me and one for you!

Jeanne Claire Probst