When I was a kid, people made time for each other. It was just the way it was… because it was the “right thing” to do. People understood then, that people needed each other and simple human contact to make life better, and more fun… and interesting.

Both of my parents worked, and there were four of us kids to look after, yet my parents always found time for us to bake cookies together quite often, and we always ate dinner together each night as a family. We played board games together on the weekends, and us kids rode our bikes all over town, spending hours exploring our small coastal city.

My favorite family outing was going to local orchards and picking apricots when they were in season. We borrowed buckets from the farmer whose orchard we were at, and ran around picking and plucking apricots till our buckets overflowed with these small round jewels. All of us kids would fall asleep in the back seat on the drive home, our hands still sticky from picking fruit. My mom would then come home and make apricot upside down cake. I can still smell the sweetness that filled up our home from those cakes, and that memory still makes me smile.

I worry sometimes how disconnected we all have become. I am not sure if it is technology or the obsession we all seem to have to succeed and chase the endless race to make money… but people just don’t seem to have the time or energy to connect with one another any more. People are too busy. Or is this an excuse?

All I know is that I don’t want to have this excuse for my life. Yes, I am busy… with Feminine Living, my family and doing the countless loads of laundry that never seem to stop. But I always want to meet people and get to know them. I want to  have meaningful conversations with them, and be able to laugh, and smile and hug them! I can’t imagine ever becoming a robot… too busy to care or give to another human being. Or to give the message to someone else that I was too busy to listen with my heart to a problem they had, or needed a shoulder to cry on.

I don’t ever want to be too busy…. to live! Do you?

Blessings,

Victoria