{"id":3595,"date":"2015-05-02T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2015-05-03T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T13:34:22","slug":"sharpen-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"Sharpen up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dandyflower\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing about me.\u00a0 I always wonder if I am doing it right.\u00a0 This thing we call life.\u00a0 There are somedays when I walk around, with my feet stuck to earth by that old gravity\u2026 and my mind in the sky\u2026 a million miles away.\u00a0 I probably look like Mrs. Incredible when she gets all stretchy from here to there.<\/p>\n

Yet\u2026.I go to places which are everywhere but where my feet are currently touching the ground.\u00a0 Not necessarily day-dreaming places\u2026 like when I was a kid.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I go to past experiences; situations where I have already been.\u00a0 Most of the time, they are those incidents which are bothering me somehow.\u00a0 And I say in my head what I certainly SHOULD have said in that moment.<\/p>\n

But dummy me.\u00a0 That moment is gone for good. It serves no purpose to revisit that instant again, and again, and again.\u00a0 Instead\u2026 I should be looking out for the wonder right in front of me.<\/p>\n

Other times my head goes to those far off places in the future.\u00a0 The events of the day which are coming around the bend.\u00a0 Or the week, or the month\u2026 or just any old possibilities.\u00a0 And I worry about them going right, or how I am going to fit time in…. to do this or that.\u00a0 Again\u2026 all that worry serves no real purpose.<\/p>\n

I am getting to the point that I think what really does matter, and matters the most\u2026. is\u2026. that we do our little bits of goodness right where we are. It may not be saving the world, but it is taking someone\u2019s grocery cart back to the corral for them, or smiling at the Slurpee-Meister behind the counter.. and telling him what a good job he is doing.<\/p>\n

I think those little gestures of kindness may start to add up.\u00a0 And\u2026 as Albert Schweitzer said\u2026\u201dDo something wonderful, people may imitate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it is, I know some truly beautiful people.\u00a0 They are the ones that radiate goodness, and wholeness, and strength. My guess\u2026 is that they have gone through a crap-storm or two.\u00a0 And as such\u2026. because of their struggle, and endurance\u2026. they have this keen appreciation for life.\u00a0 It fills them up with compassion, or concern, or genuine love. They do not discount anyone, it seems.<\/p>\n

Those are the beautiful people I am talking about.\u00a0 The ones who have nurtured their beauty like a prize-winning flower at the Fair.<\/p>\n

I want to imitate them.\u00a0 Just like Albert said.<\/p>\n

I can only hope to keep my feet on the ground\u2026 and my head in the clouds.\u00a0 But in those particular clouds\u2026..\u00a0 which remind me that the world is full of magic things.\u00a0 And the Universe is just waiting on me.. and my dull senses\u2026 to finally sharpen up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.\u201d ~Albert Einstein<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWeeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.\u201d ~A.A. Milne<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the thing about me.\u00a0 I always wonder if I am doing it right.\u00a0 This thing we call life.\u00a0 There are somedays when I walk around, with my feet stuck to earth by that old gravity\u2026 and my mind in the sky\u2026 a million miles away.\u00a0 I probably look like Mrs. Incredible when she gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}