Today we were on our way to
Christmas (this is a town in Florida )
to watch Ash-bash (my sisters blogger code name) play violin as some festival
thingy. So we were driving…well my mom
was driving. If all of us were driving
well it would not end well. Anyway, I
was in the back seat hanging with JK (brother code name). All of a sudden my mom starts telling three
seats in front of me, “DON’T HIT IT.”
And she puts her led foot to the breaks.
Okay, I was thinking dear, squirrel, person but she was talking about
this large turtle just napping in the middle of the road. Somebody needs to tell him that that is not
the place to take a power nap! Well it
was in the other lane so we didn’t hit it but I was still worried for it’s
life. I turn around and look out the
back window and see this old couple completely stop there car, get out, and
remove the turtle from the road. It was
the cutest thing I had ever seen (And I have seen a LOT
of cute things) It really touched me.
To think, if those people had been in a rush, it would have been easier
to just keep going. People are always in
a rush. Always thinking ahead, always
wishing for tomorrow. In a hurry this
way, that way, up, down, do this, do that.
How many of us would have stopped and picked the turtle off of the road? How many of us would have zoomed on by?
Okay, life is short. Here today and gone tomorrow. If we are always in the tomorrow, who is
going to be there for today. Today is a
gift, that is why they call it the present.
The world needs to slow down.
Stop and smell those roses. Pick
the turtle off the road. Let tomorrow
wait until it is no longer tomorrow. Let
me tell you, tomorrow, if given enough time, always turns into today. No matter how much rushing, it will never
happen sooner, you just miss a lot more.
World it is time to slow down. Take
a breath. And let tomorrow take care of itself.
And just a shout out to all those
turtles out there. I only have like 14
page views, and I don’t know how many people actually listen to my advice, so
like don’t nap on the road. It worked as
an analogy today but some people just don’t slow down.
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