Crawl your way out of one hole just to fall into another

Ever feel like you are drowning in all the obligations that you have?  Work, cook, clean, drive, wash, help and so on. It can seem overwhelming, and you feel as if the oxygen is being sucked from the room. You prioritize and reorganize, reschedule and just plain drive yourself insane trying to do it all.  You wake up one day and you ask yourself "Am I so busy doing things for people, that I have no time left to do anything with people."  Do you often times find yourself hosting the party instead of enjoying it?  Are you working all the time even when you are suppose to be with your family? Many of us can answer that with a yes. The day comes when we will ask ourselves what and who are we doing this for.  Unfortunately, we may find the answer is not what we wanted to hear, that we are doing it for people who would rather have the time with us.  Do they care that you are working to make more money to provide them with more, probably not.  Things fade quickly through the years in our memories, but not the time we spend with people.  I want my family to remember time spent together,being there when they needed me and not always having to wait for me to finish a phone call, a work assignment or another volunteer project I was asked to do. Because time passes quickly, and time with our family and friends is fleeting and short lived at best, and because being everything to someone is better than being something to everyone in the end. So take time to smell the roses, instead of always trying to grow them, in the end the smell of the rose is sweeter than the smell of the manure it takes to grow them.