The All-Mighty Agenda

It's clear that our young children live in a timeless world.  Time has very little or no meaning to them and when we stop to recognize this truth, we can see how incredibly delicious living life from this perspective is.  They have complete freedom from "have tos" in this sense, and are fully present in the moment.  It takes takes 2+ hours for my kids to venture through the short loop in our forest - down to the river, around and back - simply because there is so much to see and "oooh" and "aww" over.  We can learn here from our children about the wonder of life that we have lost through years of rigorous training to provide fast answers, to win the race (to where?), to have a full schedule, to get things done promptly in order for them to hold merit, and so on.

Have you ever found yourself so anxious about getting to some place "on time" that you dragged your child out the door crying? Have you ever had an agenda and wanted to leave some place "on time" and used bribery to get your child to agree to leave somewhere she didn't want to leave yet? 

We can stop and think about our schedules and whether it serves our children and our society's evolution to keep thinking that happiness is "over there" somewhere.... does it serve the children to continue running on the hamster wheel?  Perhaps we'd all find much deeper peace if we slowed down and let the children be our teachers when it comes to time.  Enjoying the present moment without an agenda allows us to enter a very high state of bliss.  We notice things we didn't notice before.  We see truth in all it's detail and definition.  

So ask yourself what is more important > bliss or productivity?  The "arrival" at some place, or enjoying the process of getting there?