Page Turner: Slow Down.

I have been having a slight problem depicting what day it is... It can't possibly be Thursday again already... But it is. How could it possibly have been a week already? This is the question I've been asking myself every week for the last 6 weeks or so.

Lately I feel as though 2017 has hit hyper speed and there is no slowing down in sight. And as I drive to and from Fort Collins on Tuesday, I think about how much the fall of man truly exists. How our bodies are no longer meant to withstand the turning of time. We are not physically eternal.

I've been thinking about how I have been out of high school for 12 years now... 12! I think about how I've been out of college for 8 years now... and I wonder to myself how that much time has passed. I see old photos pop up on my facebook page as a "flashback" but it feels like just yesterday.

We looked so young
Babies
Chubby bunnies
More pure than ever
Gullible
Nieve
Completely oblivious to what the world was...

...At times I still feel oblivious...

My point is this. -Invincibility-. As someone who is humbled by this perceived notion daily with aches, pains, and pride stripped, I see this constant reel in my mind of how 24 hours can pass like it's nothing but indeed as each of those 24 hour incriments pass... Our bodies are being broken down by the harshness of this world.

By the air
By the Elements
By the exertion
By the gravity
By the stress
By the burdens
By the politics
By the improvements
By the busyness 
By the cravings
By the sin
By the guilt
By the love
By the service

All these items that I have listed above can be catagorized in so many different ways by personal example. But again the reel that comes to mind on repeat in my head is like a flip book couple who has been married for 60 plus years and picture them in this picture book as young in the beginning as young, nieve and risilient people.

This is a large picture book. You can choose to flip slowly from day to day or you can flip it quickly as it actually feels while years pass by without even realizing it. Before you know it you're looking at this couple that felt inexperienced in life. Perhaps people wondered if it was even a good idea for them to get married so young. Now, wrinkled faces that have smile lines and crows feet I bet there are still seasons of life where they feel that same inexperienced feeling but still loving each moment as it comes. 

Even now not even a year into my own marriage, I look at my Husband and wonder what it will be like 60 years from now. How much time like that could possibly pass. But it does... More quickly than we could ever believe. We can't believe it. But here we are right now!

Thinking about:
All that we have done
All that we haven't done
All that we've seen
All that we haven't seen
All that we have accomplished
All that we have failed

However...

We mustn't view our lives from a succeeding VS failing point of view. Nor should we believe the lie that just because we are at a certain point in our lives or if we aren't where we would like to be at a certain point in our lives, that there is still time.  But also there is time to reflect and enjoy these seasons of our lives.

Just take a quick look at some of those who inspirational.  Being 30 is a brand new realm for me. There are times when I feel very old... But when you take a look at those who began at an age that is almost an entire life time a way from who I currently am... It has the potential to inspire and blow our minds.

Ernestine Shepherd-The worlds oldest bodybuilder who just turned 80, began her fitness journey at 56.

86-Year-Old "Iron Nun", Madonna Buder- Completed her first Iron-man Triathlon when she was 65!

Joseph Campbell - Didn't create Campbell's Soup Brand until he was 52!

Vera Wang- Didn't make her first dress until she was 40! 

My point is that everyday we age. Even if we feel the youngest we ever have. EVERYDAY we age and get beat down by our surroundings, we live the lives that we have been given! The amazing thing is that we don't need to mourn this continual aging process. 

We need to celebrate more. 

We need more revival out of dead end routines and feelings.

We need to encourage more.

We need to dream more.

We need to live in the moment before the weeks pass by like an hour or a minute hand on the clock and all the sudden we look in the mirror and realize more time has flipped by in this flip book of memories and seasons than we had ever anticipated.

But even if it did... Start today... Or continue today.

-Keep Adventuring.

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