Find time to do meaningful things in your life

Disclaimer

Please note I wrote this post last week before going off on my trip and started editing it this morning and realized it’s kind of impossible without changing the tone of the whole post so this post is kind of a time travel into last week with me.

Find Time to find meaning

So I’m hitting the road, and leaving my blog unattended for a few days, its been a long time coming but I’m really looking forward to this get away for more reasons than I care to share with you. The trip should be 229kms or 114 miles. After making my way through rush hour Johannesburg  traffic I whip past due east of our countries capital, Pretoria , I’ll hit the country roads which the nice people on the internet promise me has stunning scenery, who can argue with alliteration like that.

Making time to make it matter

This trip has been a plan of mine for so long, actually going on it, I suspect will leave a bit of a gap in my life. Sounds odd but really I suspect it might. Too often we set our lives up. Staging the scene. Spending our time preparing and planning. Laying one expectant block at a time. Setting up for the future. Like stacked dominoes waiting to be released. Ultimately though for many that is how many people see life a long slog to get their dominoes in a row so they can one day set that chain reaction in motion and enjoy all that work, for a few seconds. Really though is that any way to live?

Once you decide just drive

I started planning this trip two weeks ago when I was reminded that, one day we’ll wake up and there won’t be a tomorrow. There won’t be a future. On that day we’ll just have that one chance. To all intents an purposes every day is that day though. We never know which lovers goodbye will be our last. That thought scared me more than  any thing that could go wrong on a trip or single day week or year. The only sin, really is letting your time slip away. Spending what time you have on the future is dumb at best and cowardly at worst. We need to get in touch with the fear and make our stories today. While we can. That’s how my trip went from an idea to reality in two weeks after years of planning. It Really was that easy, I decided to do it and then I did it.

I’m off to see the Wizard

I’m super stoked about the trip and as much as I look forward to the company of an old friend and a mug of coffee weighing my arm down for 3 days as I remember what it is to be me and drink in the scenery, smells and sounds of life outside the city. I’m really very excited about seeing my country too. South Africa is one of the most beautiful places on earth so I’ve been told by people who can comment knowledgeably on matters such as these. I on the other hand cannot. Having lived in Johannesburg for 3 years now I’ve taken it completely for granted. I haven’t seen the sites or done any of the things tourists do when visiting our sunny shores.

So that’s another part of what this trip is about. Setting off on the long(ish) road and losing myself for a little bit. Hitting the road and just making some stories worth telling with people worth knowing.

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Tags: fear, free time, goals, Live free now, motivation, Personal Power, stress reduction

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