Priorities in Life

Life is a cycle.Birth,growth ,death.Everyone goes through this and its important to remember that while we are alive and in good health to always give quality of life your top priority.Young people today are so caught up with the rat race that they tend to forget to live their lives.Before you were married your friends and family were your priorities.You enjoyed being with them ,eating and playing together.
When you found your life's partner it was always a joy just to be together>You talked,laughed and shared a lot of things.Togetherness was such a joy and you had such fun just being with each other.Then when the kids came it was everything for them and all the plans and energy was focused on them.The challenge of bringing them up, ensuring that you gave them the important things in life became your priority.
Fine,but along the way let us not lose track of what life is all about.We need to live a quality life,have time for ourselves and family.Life is not just about working ,about making money ..its about living.As we go along we forget the joy of being together with each other as when we were young,the joy of seeing our children growing up.Children grow up fast.Before their teens they need us to spend time with them.Have you seen parents sharing time with their kids? Laughing and playing together?This is quality time because before you know it kids grow up and dont really need you anymore and you ask yourself."Did I spend enough time with my kid when he needed me?"If not its too late to turn back the clock .Time once lost can never be regained.
Meals?Today people rush over meals.They work so hard that when they come home sit down straight at the dinner table and just go through the rituals of eating.In the good old days we were taught the be ready for dinner in good time, after a shower and change of clothes and dinner was never a rushy affair.It was the time when the head of the family would communicate with the family and there was good family banter and fun.Meals were never rushed.Today we see people coming home late ,rushing over dinner with hardly a word spokes.Quality of life?Is doing business or work so important that all else is secondary ?
Couples must always try to go back to the way they were.Remember the young days?Why cant they be relived?.Treasure each other because at the end of the day one of you will have to leave the other.Too late for tears,too late to regret...
We are never more happy than to see all our kids and grandchildren together under one roof.You should see how happy mum is when the children come back for a meal.She happily goes to the market ,buys all the goodies and cook with such joy that you cant believe it.That's mother's love!!!
A friend just told me that we must never forget that our spouses shared our life from young,through the good times and the bad.Now that we in our golden years we must always try to bring back the good times we had when we were young.If you rush over life its an indication of bad time management that's all.People get all riled up if they rush things.Look at the example of some of the most successful people in the world,see how they manage their time ,how they draw the line between work and private time.
At the end of the day let us not forget to live our lives because you are here only once and what is more important to you? Are you in control of your life or does your life control you?

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