My wife says it takes a lot to get me excited about an event, but here it is Saturday and I am excited about my son, daughter (daughter-in-law) and their beautiful children coming to the mountains to visit. I usually don't blog on the weekend but this morning I was at work and during my quiet time had to write.
Doing the extras is no chore when you are excited about the prize. I love my children and their families as my pride swells in how they have become responsible adults. (Wasn't sure about it when they were 15) When you start to get in your senior years you have a different perspective of the value of relationships.
In our lifetimes we will have as many as 300 acquaintances who we call friends but during that time you will only have five really personal friends. But over time, in the world we live in, we lose track of them and their lives. Facebook and other social networks have allowed us to peek back into those long ago relationships but in the end we just observe how their lives have turned out.
We are not guaranteed one more breath and yet we treat our friends like we have years to develop a close relationship. So you need to get excited about relationships! Getting excited at an event like a UT football game can be a part of life events, but the real event is a one on one relationship with someone who you can really call your friend.
Everyone knows I push the fact that you need a personal relationship with the creator of the Universe who is passionately giving unconditional love to you and am excited to have that relationship.
Now add to that of getting excited about loving a friend that way. Unconditionally! WOW! What a rush!
Think about someone you need to connect to today and give them a call or write them a letter. My next assignment for me.
p.s. In three weeks my daughter her fiancee is coming to the mountains. Hard to control my excitement!