Time

Time is too slow for those who wait, 
too swift for those who fear, 
too long for those who grieve, 
too short for those who rejoice, 
but for those who love, 
time is eternity. 
~ Henry Van Dyke
   

 The race for time, to be there on time, then to find the time and to know what to do with it, when it’s all mine! ~Lisa

This is how I felt this week, my vaction started on May 4th. My flight was overbooked to Chicago, so I took a train, then my first Uber drive to the airport, a plain to Germany, then a 12 hours train journey to Sweden, with Four transfers.

Hurry, rush and don’t be a second late or I would missed a connection! I made it! Time was my best friend, down to the seconds or I would have not made it on time!

It took me until today, three days after my arrival that I felt for the first time in my life, that time was all mine. No children, siblings, parents, partner, friends, pet, home, job, and car travel plans to tend too, just me! Free from a time schedule, and having to be some where. I even forgot what day it was, and didn’t check the time, until after a 6 hour hike. What supriced me the most is that I didn’t feel guilty of all of the time that I took for my self today. I didn’t find time, it found me!  

Sweden, Denmark, cruise vacation, May 4th thr May 29th

Letting go it seems is one of my biggest lessons. I don’t think I’m alone in this:-)

I have such big plans and dreams for my life, and also for this wonderful dream on community that we are building. Sometimes I want situations to turn out in a certain way…and for people to act as I would like them to act (whether that is as a friend, or a lover, or a community member)

But they don’t. People and life find their own way.

Sometimes, that’s not the way into your heart, into your businesses, or into your life.

Letting go and trusting is hard, but every time I read this wonderful poem, I am reminded that letting go is ok, and I promise myself that today, I will let go just a little bit more.

Enjoy

TO “LET GO” TAKES LOVE

by author unknown

To “let go” does not mean to stop caring,

it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To “let go” is not to cut myself off,
it is the realisation I can’t control another.

To “let go” is not to enable,
but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To “let go” is to admit powerlessness,
which means that the outcome is not in my hands.

To “let go” is not to try to change or blame another,
it is to make the most of myself.

To “let go” is not to care for,
but to care about.

To “let go” is not to fix,
but to be supportive.

To “let go” is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.

To “let go” is not to be in the middle, arranging the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their own destinies,

To “let go” is not to be protective,
but to permit another to face reality.

To “let go” is not to deny,
but to accept.

To “let go” is not to nag, scold, or argue,
but to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.

To “let go” is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take every day as it comes, and to cherish myself in it.

To “let go” is not to criticize and regulate anybody,

but to try to become what I dream I can be.

To “let go” is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.

To “let go” is to fear less and love more.