Children Knows what stuff tastes like

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin -
 
 
Children knows what stuff tastes like.
 
My son Dylan (his dog's name is Bob) is now seven years old. He was a bit of a surprise to me and my wife. My other two sons are both in their 20's. (He is sort of "uit die oude doos") In fact he was such a surprise that I bought two of those chemist pregnancy testers as I was convinced the first one was faulty.
 
I bought him and his cousins each a roll of Fizzers. So Dylan comes to me and says "taste one" (I know what a Fizzer tastes like) He says "Just chew it" so I did. "Tastes like soap does it not?" he enquires. And you know what? He's right! It tastes just like soap. I just forgot what soap tastes like.
 
You see children and Jack Russell's are to me a sort of symbol of life. They get up in the morning with joy. So glad that there is another day to have fun in. We have the exact same day, but for us it is just another day. Nothing special. We forgot the taste of soap. We forgot that another day of fun is lying ahead. A life worth living.
 
It's so easy to read something like this and to say "that's nice" But it helps you f*ckall if you do not actually have fun in this day. Who says your same old same old dreary job cannot be fun? Have you tried to actually put some effort into it to make it extra special. To see how few errors you can make. To write extra neat? To actually taste your coffee and savour it. Not just gulp it down with familiarity. Try; just for one day to be aware of stuff as if though it is the first time you discover it. You will find to your amazement that you can enjoy the familiar.
 
You will also discover that what you don't like, and in this manner you can now because you are aware of it. Change it and make it better altogether get rid of it.
 
You will make it in business or in your job if what you deliver is special. Different. Pleasant. It is this false thought that we force upon ourselves that we are going to live forever in the flesh, that causes us to make life dull. The "I'll do it tomorrow", syndrome.
 
Paradoxically our fear of death makes us so afraid to live that we protect ourselves from life and so we become the living dead.
 
If I were to tell you that you only have six months to live...
 
Will life all of a sudden have a different meaning? Will the flowers look brighter? The bird songs more beautiful?
 
What changed? All of a sudden life is precious and time becomes the most valuable thing you have. You realise time has a value far beyond anything like money and the candy floss you are perusing.
 
Only when you experience the present are you alive. Don't wait for the last six months of your life to realise that there is nothing more precious than time. Live with gusto! Live with joy!
 
Above all. Remember! That what you are looking for is already inside of you. It is a choice, it is an attitude, not stuff. To change the world, change yourself. The world simply reflects back to you what you project.

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."
- Mike Murdock -

(c) Theo Pistorius