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What does it take for us to stop and enjoy life?
50 RESPONSES | posted by SoulPancake 6 months ago | Life's Big Questions
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WhiskeyRiver
- 2 months agoThat is my religion. It is my job to stop end enjoy life,and all things in it.God has set me up so that the only thing I have to do is have fun in my life.And,I do this well.God made all the beautiful places,things,people,
etc,and I hope that before I die,I will have seen it all.That will be my Epitaph."I saw it all"
mswtihms
- 4 months agoI learned to stop and enjoy life when officially diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis...You learn to enjoy the little things in life and enjoy each moment!
Julianna_D
- 4 months agoa chance of it being taken away....
srimayadeva
- 5 months agoChoosing to do so. Being awake to the present moment and not being lost in thinking and doing.
Remember when you were little, everything was magical, fun and new. Become like a little kid again, explore, enjoy and play, experience and feel.
Melissaa
- 6 months agoMaybe if everyone wasn't so greedy, cynical and narcissistic we can actually learn to appreciate what we are given.
DanielPotashov
- 6 months agoeither that or zen. what the hell am i saying, something big. you just need to KNOW you know?
DanielPotashov
- 6 months ago@sweston a gun?
revguido
- 6 months ago@sereneredhead not everybody is a runner and that is alright.
breadbox
- 6 months agoUsually when something terrible happens - and often that comes too late.
Why can't we just slow down and enjoy everything that's around us, rather than keep heading forth nowhere?
jodievt98
- 6 months agothanks for the reminder to stop and smell the roses. I thought it was stressful to come up with activities to keep my daughter entertained, when I should have viewed it as an opportunity to just enjoy the small things.
iamgloverj
- 6 months agoDrop the corporate world on it's head. Rebuild.
nunley
- 6 months ago"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments." Anne Morrow Lindgergh.
I read that last week and have enjoyed the moments more fully, I just wish I had a Vampire Weekend soundtrack to live to!
seedeypete
- 6 months agoat THIS specific point - - - money.
pure and simple
Gobbie
- 6 months agoA big snow storm in our minds, not just a physical one,
a slump,
mega depression.
If you get through that, your soul deeply remembers how and reason to enjoy life for life.
loudinrich
- 6 months agoI think that, barring winter storms or catastrophe, we need to pay attention. It is so easy to walk around all day in a fog of routine that we don't notice all that we could enjoy. Opportunities are lost. When storms, or catastrophe do hit, we are forced to pay attention.
lorrendanielle
- 6 months agoin these past few weeks, i've discovered what it takes for me to just stop and enjoy life. all this snow has kept me close to home. and for a while, i hated it. and i worried. but then i realized that, since i wasn't going and going and keeping myself busy and troubling myself, i could stop and think and see things and have fun and spend quality time with people. to just sit and talk and play in the snow (which is something i had never really done before until a couple of weeks ago, and i'm 16 years old now).
it was like i took a much-needed vacation from my busy busy busy life. and i enjoyed every bit of it. every memory made.
i know it might be silly that it took the weather to slow me down for once. why can't i just decide for myself to stop? that i just need a break?
it feels nice to slow down for once. to enjoy the little things.
Pwnzerfaust
- 6 months agoLife needs to stop too.
bryanfarris
- 6 months agoIt's never, ever too late to do what you want to do.
littlehart
- 6 months agothank you for the memories, i had that time with my young people one year, we play in the snow at midnight as it had just began to fall, and for days we enjoyed our time together, and then listening at nap time to the cloths drying over the heaters as the snow would fall in frozen plops...
then when hurricane hugo came, no water, no power, i gave them my art supplies and told them to draw on their bedroom walls something of their life.. and at night we laid on my bed by candles, and lamp light, and played slap jack, old maids and topping it off with poker.... when the lights came back on sons said we would not have these times again. cooking on hot stones, pizza, bacon, eggs. and mash mellows... and card playing..... skateboarding all day... twas true... we have never had days like that again... we have all gone our own ways... scattered to the wind....
probono
- 6 months agoa peaceful piece of mind !
CPSue
- 6 months agomasterpiece!!
callisto
- 6 months agosnow.
causexeffect
- 6 months agoi recently came to the understanding that my life was moving in a circle that i was not prepared to continue on. and it's not so much the fact that i'm dissatisfied with where i've landed or who i've become, just everything was stale. at 26 i found a career i enjoy working in everyday, friends that make me happy. no girlfriend but i'm ok with that.
but my days have been the same. i live in jersey and commute to the city. watch the same tv shows. listen ot the same music. and then one day my friend of 10 years told me she was getting on a plane and going to spain and morocco for a week.
and it got me thinking... why cant i do that? why cant i just live my life. i work for this paycheck and never really take vacation, never really look outside the box like i once had (i used to travel and tour for my job in music all the time). things have changed, my career included.
so i called my best bud, who i know felt the same way as i do, and now we're going to vegas at the end of the month. it's done. we booked it that day.
august we're going to cancun.
places i've been already, but i think it's time to start cashing in on doing the things i've always wanted, and not just bank vacation. i'm young, healthy and fun. time i start acting like it.
thank you Lia for making me realize this. you're a great friend.
KnighterKT
- 6 months agoThis was so cute! It showed how people can have fun without frivolous spending and material positions. What a way to spend the afternoon, getting in touch with your inner child again. We all need to do that daily. It adds joy and love to the common day and makes things feel all the more brighter.
larrybeans
- 6 months agoQuit worrying about the bank account, I say. While there are certainly many reasons for us going through the motions in life, I think one of the biggest is that we are dominated by our work lives. Forty to fifty to sixty hour work weeks are a simple formula for being tired and burnt out for all the other hours of the week.
Be happy with a little less money, a less nice of a house, and a cheap car.
"The most important things in life aren't things."
susantroche
- 6 months agoI love this! Awareness is invaluable in our everyday life.
mandim3
- 6 months agoIn order to enjoy the simple things in life, which often we miss in our culture, we need to leave room to have fun and relax. I feel that, at lest in my life, it?s so easy to be busy running from one activity to the next, thinking that this will bring me joy, but when I slow down the hectic schedule that life so often is and rather spend time doing the things that I enjoy the most, with those I love. It?s in these moments that I truly enjoy life.
These moments are truly rare though and usually only come about when the unexpected happens or I make room for them to happen (although that?s pretty tough).
WishfulThinking
- 6 months agoInspiration. In the case of the video, the inspiration was a total whitewashing of a city. The men and women featured in the video woke up that morning and didn't see the familiar streets that had greeted them every morning prior, but instead a blank canvas with their hometown's less desirable qualities buried deep underneath. They left their homes that day with no preconception, no reminders from their pasts. There was only that new day, with endless possibilities. Sure, the snow caused the citizens of Washington D.C. to physically slow down. But it was the endless possibility lent by a city wiped clean that inspired them to indulge in the sweet, simple impulses that we so often neglect.
Slideswirls
- 6 months agoKnowing something terrible that has happened to you personally or someone you know. It kills the day, the week, the month, and it just straight-up sucks the mood and life out of you for a while. It does make you think about yourself and become introspective so not every depressing day that leaves you stuck in place is completely terrible.
Jawajim
- 6 months agoHaving your life threatened like by a disease or a near fatal car accident so everybody go out and cause some life threatening accidents and remember its for there own good .
Gary B.
- 6 months agoIt takes weather to slow Americans down. Now we just need to implant a snow globe in some of our brains.I have brain cancer and maybe they threw in a snow globe already. I am in a place to enjoy life everyday. Don't wait for something bad to happen first. Just do it (sorry Nike) and you will feel the difference.
Pascali
- 6 months agoI have moments everyday that make me enjoy life. I love my life. Always have, always will. I guess it's mainly because bad things aren't the markers in my life, good things are. Currently I'm living in Japan so reflections could be anything from seeing the anime-styled haircuts and costumes to random Japlish signage in shop windows, to the little old cleaning lady in the gym who always says hello to me and tells me to take care as I cycle home in the rain. The rubbishy moments seem to fade away pretty quickly if you're outlook is good; if you try to enjoy your work and living situation and not dwell on what's missing. Appreciation of all things, even the mundane (because some people don't even have that luxury) sets you up to not have to stop life in order to recognise how enjoyable it truly is.
luchi9
- 6 months agoRealizing , minutes after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake have woke you up violently, that your loved ones are fine and your house is still there ..
Today I celebrate life and pray for those who have lost everything ..
carlosvictoria
- 6 months agoto put it simply, all one needs to do is make time for it (which is, for the most part, already a challenge in itself).
CatBark
- 6 months agoSomething inconvenient, to the point that it makes you miserable at some time or another.
inkme777
- 6 months agoits takes a conscious choice, the past is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but TODAY IS A GIFT! (whispers) that's y they call it the present
anarchyxxcrayons
- 6 months agoChanges. Big ones, little ones, ones outside out control. It takes the world moving or the leaves falling. It takes sadness and happiness and death and life. It takes everything and anything. It takes. It gives.
ktbrokendown
- 6 months agoSometimes I think it takes an event that knocks us out of routine, a snow storm being a great example of this. Other times it can be a power outage. Suddenly, we are cut off from the technological world and forced to get back to basic nature of human interaction. It is times like these that I enjoy life the most.
ejetzer
- 6 months agoI think it takes at least one great moment of sadness, so that we realize that life is short and that we must enjoy it. Afterwards, it's up to each to keep up the good will :)
bek2010
- 6 months agoI liked the small moment in the video of the little dog tucked into the winter coat. It reminded me that getting a kitten a couple months ago really helped me enjoy small moments in life more. When you live with a little living creature that gets excited about dust bunnies, bits of string, and toilet water, it's hard not to find those moments to just enjoy what's going on.