Stop...

"Slow down and pace yourself, cuz when it's good yeah it's a long open road"

Kudos to Teddy Geiger for being my favorite future husband and musician. If you haven't heard of him, look him up :) That quote is from one of his songs. I drove home from Queen Creek tonight on surface streets alone, mainly Ellsworth if you wanted to know. Oh and thats at least fifteen or twenty miles if you didn't know. The reason? The night is beautiful :) I can smell the rain in the air, I can feel a slight breeze, and it is a perfect 80 degrees out. I could not bare to let it go to waste. I don't ever leave my windows down on the freeway because it is really loud and it lowers your gas mileage. So, I drove surface streets all the way home with my windows down.

You must know that I never drive with the windows down, at least not all the way down. I think this was the first night I had them down all the way and let my arm fly out the window. You know the feeling of resistance you feel when you put your hand out the window? You know, your hand immediately gets pushed back with the resistance of the wind. It's almost as if the wind is pushing you back or telling you to go back.

I was thinking about it, and maybe the resistance is telling you to slow down. I mean my arm did start to hurt as I was flying down the road. Maybe on the road you are on in life, the wind is pushing you back. You feel as if it is a bad thing, telling you to look back and dwell on the past which fills you with an immense feeling of regret. But maybe, just maybe the resistance you feel isn't meant to hold you back, maybe it isn't telling you to look back. Maybe, life is telling you to slow down, to enjoy the moment and the place you are at in your life. It's telling you to roll down the windows and experience the fresh air around you. It's telling you to find peace in the moment amidst the high speed drive that we find ourselves on.

I encourage you, to step outside, to fully experience the moment your are in right now. Because before you know it, it will be gone. There will be no other July 22nd, 2010 ever again. Experience the present, be here, be now. Slow down and find peace.

Somehow I found it today driving with my windows down and blasting my classical music (the score of the movie of my life). There is a long open road ahead of you going to who knows where. Enjoy the road, take your eyes off the destination and enjoy the road. Feel the wind telling you to slow down, pace yourself.

Peace :)