Are you getting old or you are getting goals? Summer holidays have come and gone and now its time to face the hurdles of this new beginning of the year of 2016. How near have we got to the goals as for last year. If we are now feeling a bit refreshed after the December celebration. It is a good moment to start to reflect for the final spirit. Lets begin again. How nice it would be if we could turn back the clock which was tickling away relentlessly and live again those days of our youth when we had our whole lives ahead of us. Do you remember when you were a small child young children have great capacity for wonder. They love things which are beautiful. And even the finest flower attracts their attention and fills them with amazement. If we lose this ability to marvel at the world around us and to feel the optimism of a life worth living, it is a sign we are growing old. Do you remember your adolescent age? Those were turbulent days when we were filled with ideals and wanted to change the world immediately, we were determined to remedy all the social ideas we saw around us.. We could not understand why adult seems to be doing nothing which appeared each day in the new or everyday life. We were going to do something about them when we left school, then we finished our schooling and went to work and the years rolled by.
I once Saw a cartoon which showed a car approaching a narrow untarred road full of ridges left by cars that had passed previously , there was a sign board which read choose your rut carefully, you will stay in them for the next kilometers . Many of us have got stuck in the hectic professional life's we choose x years ago so that as we actually grew older we never had a moment to turn our ideals into reality. Never mind we say to ourselves, when I have made my fortune and retire I will have time to spend more time with my family . I will donate to those worth while project which I dreamt of in my school days and the world I live behind will be a better place for young people . Our goals have to be in our head and in our heart as we have to work towards them little bit little. , day by day with the reality of our daily well thought out action .
Let us take advantage of today and lets spend time now with the children and the family . I recently read an article “titled it is more enriching to read with mum than to play or watch TV with her” in which Norberto Gonzalez comments on research carried out which has showed that reading is the most enriching activity for the mother-toddler relationship. Playing with the child [under 3 years old] ranked as the immediate runner up. It made me realize that we are also enriched when we read or play with the children because it helps us not only to bond with them and love them more but also to get back the light heartedness and joy of the happy times we spent with our families when we were small. It’s more the amount of time that we have spent with the children that the amount of money we have spent on their education. This will build up their character and help them have happy lives. Perhaps we could try to carve out time from busy office timetable and professional commitment to nurture our family life and help in task that made our life more meaningful . In this way we never grow old and we will get our goals.. So get your goals and don't get old.
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