Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Stick Out Your Neck

Does the tortoise or the hare win the race?






Well first, it helps if you know you are in a race. Most of us believe we are in a race against time. The biggest finish line, for most, is the end of the line or death. For some, it is getting that to-do list completed. Each race really just a race against self and usually false expectations.

I sometimes am confounded by what I expect of me. I am sixty-five and I should know how to do most things but it is amazing how little I know. I sometimes wonder if I to late and my time has passed me by. Well some time has passed, some is now and perhaps more will come.

In the meantime, I have enjoyed learning to meander like a turtle through life and learning that the only race that I recognize is the one that is becoming me.