I just finished reading a blog written by a Type-A personality mom. She has a compulsive need to keep everything running on time and organized. In the hectic, fast-paced world of her working, being a wife, raising children, carpooling back and forth to school, meeting her families extra-curricular activities, and generally taking care of life at home, she’s desperately trying to slow her pace, and stop to smell the roses, as her youngest daughter does.
Her blog is so compelling, it has me wanting to make a change in my life, even though my child-rearing days are over, and I’m now fully enjoying grandchildren. But, that’s where I want to make the change – with my husband, children and grandchildren, and family in general.
I have a crazy assumption that everything I do should be organized and on time, and I find myself rushing through the days. I don’t think I’m a type-A personality. I think I’m a Type-B, but I push it into acting like a type-A – if that makes any sense. Also, I’m married to a type-A, and some of my spouse’s habits have rubbed off on me through the years! (However, he is trying to change his life also.)
I think I just put too much into my days and weeks and so I have to hurry through life. Probably most of us do that very thing. But, this is an easy fix – and it can be changed.
I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions. One reason why is that I usually don’t wait for a reason to change something I want or something that needs to be adjusted in my life. If I see a change is needed, I start working on it that very minute.
However, it’s the end of 2013, and I do want to change the way I hurry through life, so I’ll make a resolution: 2014 is the beginning of my new life – a life where I slow down and stop to smell the roses. 2014: The year where I stop living such a distracted life of meeting deadlines and schedules, and of always rushing to the next duty or project. 2014: The year I start paying more attention to the sweetness and delightfulness of my family.
A life where I enjoy my family and my grandchildren more – and I don’t mean in the sense of visiting them. I mean in the sense that I will stop and enjoy what they are doing, watch their smiles, look into their eyes, and speak softer and kinder words.
I resolve to go for walks with my mother. Take my grandbabies to the park to play more often. Enjoy evenings with my husband. And spend more time doing things with my kids.
For 2014, I resolve to be happier, laugh more, play more, and wait… Wait for life to push me instead of me pushing life.