Slow Down
October 23rd, 2005 by 
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I got this from the mail from my friend, Rene Ledesma of EverGreen Marine. It certainly is a touching piece. This poem was reportedly written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital who will never have a chance to live a full life, and wish us to appreciate that we will. Are we counting our problems, instead of our blessings?
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Cause you never had time
To call and say,”hi”
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I may have been guilty of rushing too much, and now taking time to focus on quality over quantity. I have made posts that you may find interesting - like the joy of reading and savoring one book in three weeks, instead of rushing through 20 books , taking time to be happy, here and now, 3 think days, and Lives Lived.
Pls. check also my posts On Life.
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November 2nd, 2005 at 4:05 pm
I am always wondering why can’t I slow down. Most of the time I feel guilty about this and try to console myself by believing that I am paying some karmic obligations done in this lifetime or another lifetime? Or I am committing another transgression I have to pay again in another lifetime? How can I slow down, when there’s too much to do… so little time?
November 3rd, 2005 at 9:01 am
Yes, me too.
but at the end of the day, many of the things we are so busy about sound urgent, but are not really that important.
Maybe one good way is to ask, ” what are the things I am doing now that will really matter to me five years from now?”
November 6th, 2005 at 12:17 am
ain’t it strange that a child shows us adults things we’ve oftentimes overlooked? i gotta businessman friend whom i repeatedly ask 2slow down, but his answer would be am gonna retire and take it slow when that time comes. when would this be? when one is too ill to be able to go out and enjoy a refreshing waft of morning breeze?, when he can no longer enjoy the sound of birds chirping coz his his hearing is impaired. what’s it with you businessmen…would life not be normal if you took things slow?
am of a different orientation, i work in the hospital trying to find out why people are sick…for me, when one has got a headache, it ain’t plain and simple headache, it is a signal telling the body that something is wrong…
if it goes away with an analgesic, it does not mean that’s the end of it…
my advice to everyone…slow down, listen to your body…
good blog you have got. thanks for sharing with us your insights and am so eager to learn entrepreneurship from someone like you.