I’ve got a friend who is married with two children, bought a new house not that long ago with a pool for the family to enjoy, and seemed to be on the road to family bliss. The he got whalloped with a huge project at work and started having to work from the very early hours in the AM to very late at night, seven days a week, and I started thinking about how this impacts someone with kids that are into afterschool and weekend activities.
I’m not much better with managing work-life balance with a horrible work-a-holic streak, but I don’t have the added complications of a family to have to juggle. It did get me thinking about all the things we miss in life if we’re constantly slaves to our jobs, watching the seasons slip by each year without taking the time to just stand back and enjoy lifes little moments. Things like taking a day-trip in the car to visit a fair, farmers market, or flea market that’s an hour or two away… something I used to do in years gone past.
This song is a rallying cry to all of us who aren’t taking the time to enjoy lifes journey to try an inspire us all, me included, to taking the time to savour lifes little moments before they’ve passed us by. I hope that if you are like me and my friend and struggling with finding balance in your life that you take the lyrics of this song to heart and find just a little time each week to Enjoy Life’s Journey.