‘SLOW DOWN & ENJOY LIFE’

          Remember the evenings spent sittin’ around the table with friends and family playin’ ROOK, UNO, or dominoes? How we’d send the kids outside to play in the yard, while we laughed and cut-up with one another, socializin’ and enjoyin’ each other’s company as we played games for hours?

          Remember sittin’ out on the porch in a rockin’ chair or porch swing or in a lawn chair out in the yard under a shade tree, shellin’ peas or butterbeans, snappin’ green beans, or shuckin’ and silkin’ corn, listenin’ to our parents or grandparents talk? How nothin’ ever tasted so good on those hot ol’ days as a glass of ice-cold sweet tea from out of one of Mamaw’s colored aluminum tumblers?

Remember how as kids we traveled in packs, riding our bicycles all over the ‘neighborhood’, havin’ fun just hangin’ out? How we’d climb into a swing, twist it around and around, then let it go, spinnin’ ‘til we were ‘dizzy drunk’? Remember playin’ badminton out in the yard with your cousins, arguin’ over whose turn it was to serve, or playin’ hide n’ seek ‘til dark, and then fillin’ an old jar with lightnin’ bugs just before bedtime? Ahhh… those were good times.

In this day and age of hurry, hurry, hurry… all of us can benefit by taking the time to slow down and enjoy life. Slowing down leads to a greater appreciation for life and a greater level of happiness; and, most importantly, it strengthens the relationships we have with our families and friends. We should live life, not just experience it, so… Tag! You’re it!