The fact of the matter is… we will all miss a ton of things in this life. You will miss a bunch.  I will miss a bunch. But here is the long and short of it is this.  It is okay.

We all can get very consumed with trying to do everything.  Keep up with this.  Don’t miss that.  We try to experience all of it…. participate in every little thing ….and not miss out on anything important.

Here is a big truth about life.  A simple little fact, really.   We cannot experience everything. There exists a physical reality  which dictates this truth.   We’ll miss most things. To do it all is clearly impossible.

But the key is, I think…. that……  life is better when we don’t try to do everything.

We might see and hear and learn things that we were too busy to notice.  Perhaps we will have time to experience a life we’ve been rushing right by.  We might begin to notice some things about life which turn out to be quite amazing, and wonderful.

Like woodpeckers.  On frozen suet blocks.  In a blizzard.

No.  We can’t do it all.

And that’s the way it should be.  Just so long as we take the time to do it right.

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West