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Several centuries ago, a Japanese emperor commissioned an artist to paint a bird.
Time passed as it is prone to do and still no painting was brought to the emperor.
Finally, the emperor, exasperated beyond words ordered the artist brought before his throne and when he stood before him demanded to know where his painting was.
“If you will place a canvas before me oh mighty emperor I will have it ready for you as you watch.”
In less than an hour, a brilliant masterpiece became a reality.
“A masterpiece. A masterpiece,” murmured the Emperor. But then he shouted, “And why did you wait so long? Did you not know you were gambling with your life?”
The artist then reached into a case he brought with him. In this case were thousands of sketches of feathers, wings, heads and feet.
“The completetion of the drawing was easy. It was the preparation that enabled me to finish what you have called a masterpiece.”
Preparation is good…but beware... if it goes on too long it can become procrastination.
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of pain.
It is an old cliché, and that’s why it is so true; “If you don’t have a will your State has one all made out for you.” In short, if you have earned a degree in procrastination, how much will probate eat up? Marilyn Monroe was worth one million dollars when she died. Her heirs got one hundred thousand.
Like buying insurance, preparing for the inevitable doesn’t hasten the day. It just makes the day easier on those left behind.
It isn’t that we don’t know certain things; it is rather that we forget that learning isn’t an automatic.
Therefore,
in our senior years with more time on our hands a trip to the library
or the bookstore can put us in touch with certain preparation musts that
done or left undone can change our lives.
Such as the fact that growing older is a once in a lifetime experience so we might as well get it right. Such as wearing a hearing aid rather than false pride. Or have blinking lights when you have a hard time hearing the phone or doorbell. Or using a cane rather than courting a broken hip. Or wear glasses rather than squinting while being half-blind. Slowing down, handled intelligently, is better than a full stop handled stupidly.
Nor should common sense be put on the back burner. Rather, learn how to take criticism without looking for excuses. And stop offering advice long after you know you should have ceased and desisted.
Nor
should you allow yourself to forget that giving love to adult children
and grandchildren should be a love without any strings attached. It must never be used to hold anyone in bondage nor ordered up like some desired commodity. Love must be free; else it is not love.
As we grow older we grow wiser simply by the act of experience. It
does take the added effort of applying this wisdom, otherwise we waste a
lot of pain and problems that could and should teach us so very much.
Would you have a mind that benefits from what life teaches you and columns like this suggest? Then prepare for it at every opportunity by giving it a workout on a regular basis. Pull out those crossword puzzles, write that family memoir, watch at least some educational shows. Stimulate
the wonderful folds of your brain so they daily sit up and take note of
what you have sought and what is often seeking you.
Why add to your daily schedule as an always rather than constantly subtracting?
Because there
is a great satisfaction in waking up each morning and looking in the
mirror at a person you know is pursuing the integrity of being their
best, doing their best and not prematurely giving up on life.
Would you be creative in pursuing a new you that is an improvement? Then write yourself some letters of encouragement and then mail them to yourself. You’ll
laugh tomorrow and at what you suggested to improve your today but then
you will most likely go out and began to heed your own advice.
We both know the longer you practice POSTPONMENT the more likely you will not progress because you have not prepared.
One thing is for sure, killing time can kill you. Life without a purpose becomes pointless at any age. The disadvantage of having nothing to do, nothing to learn, nothing to achieve is that you can’t stop to rest.
And yes, idlers don’t just waste time, they waste themselves.
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