Living Rightly

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.   Horace

Living Rightly - doing everything perfectly, finding the best way to do things before you begin anything.  Wasting a way for that perfect moment in time.  I am starting to learn that living is what I do when I am waiting for my life to happen.  How many times have I said, "Well things will be better when __________ happens."  You can fill in the blank with almost anything you want.  I thought when integration happened then I could solve all my problems.  It didn't occur to me that I would have a new set of problems and some of the old problems hung around to share the adventure.  Really!  I spent the month of June thinking about where I am now and where I want my life to go.  I am making plans.  I am setting things in motion.  I also know that life can change in a heartbeat.  Ten years ago this summer I went to the doctor's office and they told me that I needed to go in for a biopsy to check for cancer.  I was calm and confident.  I was only in my 40s.  The shock I felt the first week of September that I had cancer didn't wear off until September 11 when I watched the planes crash into the Pentagon, a field, and 2 towers over and over again on all 20 computers in the lab.  My world was rocked on a personal and national level.  Now I believe that Living, really living, True to myself is the best thing I can do.  I will never be a millionare. I will probably never travel the world.  All is right in my world when I am privledged to visit my children's homes and listen to their loving conversation and the laughter of their children's voices.  I think sometimes I need to readjust my priorities.  Enjoy your day where ever you are at with who ever you are with for that is Living.