OK, I admit it. I have never ridden in a bobsled and I never saw the movie, Cool Running. And yet, given the opportunity to slip on one of those really fast looking racing suits and jumping in, you can count me in!
I know my physique would not look pretty in the tight spandex and I may not win a gold medal in the Olympics, but just to ride in a machine with no engine that goes that frikin fast would be so cool.
Is so many ways this month and especially this week, I feel as though I glance up only occasionally from our family bobsled and all I see is a blur. It's work, it's shopping, it is holiday events, it is the whole enchilada. From sunrise to sunset we are so busy that we are missing some of the most amazing things.
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| Raymond carrying Ryan over finish line! |
This all came to mind after our first Santa Run in Pacific Beach last Saturday.
Not enough going on in your home? Try throwing in a 5K where you wear a red felt Santa jacket, hat, pants, black belt and white sunglasses. Oh yeah it is about 70 degrees and you have to commit one hand to holding up your Santa pants or your falling down on Garnet Ave..
My life is crazy. It was not until long after our kids were finally in bed and sound asleep that I looked at the photograph to the right. I had missed it.
It was a moment in time that reminded me to look up from the blur of our life to really look at a photograph. We take so many pictures I think sometimes we forget how precious these moments can really be.
Time really is slipping away if we don't pause. Even if it is just for a moment.
I guess as much as I feel my life is spent in a bobsled zipping down the icy course, I need to look up more. If I don't, at the end of the run I will step out a very old man and wonder where all the moments in time went.
To me that would not be a gold medal. It would mean I forgot the most important things in my life which are my wife, children and friends.
Theresa and I wish you all a great holiday season.
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