Life

This morning I left for work at 5:30. I had to be in Hawthorne by 8:00 . Driving to Hawthorne for those of you who don't know LA, is like driving from Malone to Albany. It is only 38 miles, however the 405 freeway is a parking lot: I don't like to be late. Well much to my surprise there was no traffic. I was in Hawthorne by 6:20. now Hawthorne is no place to be at 6:30 in the morning! It was still dark and I had 90 minutes before the conference started. What a drag. After the conference I went back to work. Drag number 2. However, upon leaving work I drove by a horrific car accident. Then it struck me: I am darn lucky! Sure it has been a long day. Now I am waiting at the apple store cause my iPhone is on the fritz. In all of my pain and fatigue I am still luckier than those poor people in that accident. We don't know when our number is punched. We just take each day and run. We are busy but are we getting anywhere? Line from an Indigo Girls song. So I reckon I need to slow down and celebrate more! Enjoy more, even waiting or arriving early, or having a student knock me down. Though life may not always bring us happily ever after it can just be happy. So, we should be grateful and celebrate what we have, and when we start feeling like we are always pushing that boulder uphill...we need to remember the privledge of pushing. That is my thought anyway. But what do I know?