Making Life More Difficult than it Need Be

I was driving my son to school this morning when I turned a corner to come face-to-face with a black and white cat in the road. For a moment, it didn’t know what to do, and then decided that rather than turning left, needing only a short distance to jump to the safety of a field, it ran across the full length of the road to the other side.

This got me thinking about how human life confuses nature, and I had a chat with my boy about it, in a fun kind of way.

Cats don't understand cars and school appointments. And I wondered if my inner caveman that still thinks it is 200,000 BCE understands them either. Mmmm. It seems easy to overlook the needs of our inner animal. That old part of us that sometimes gets caught in the headlights of life. I know that mine understands clouds and rivers. It feels calm when it listens to the wind through the trees, and the forest birds singing.

Seeing the cat this morning made me think that perhaps life is too fast for myself in ways I may not be aware of. I saw that perhaps I need to make sure that there is time in my day to smell flowers and enjoy the simple sun on my face. Things my inner caveman would appreciate.

I'm going to go for a walk now.

Heath