When I was young, my sails often filled with air. Even now, some days are effortless as I race across the surface of the hours overflowing with more life than I know what to do with. Other days, I pull at the ropes hoping to catch just enough wind to keep moving forward: just engaged, active, caring, courageous enough.
And then there are the days when there is no breeze to capture at all. But even these days, if I don’t make a fuss about the way things used to or could be, can be sweeter than I’d ever imagined.
Just yesterday, I was zipping along in full sail. I enjoyed the energy, the purposefulness. At the same time, there was a sense of freedom because I did not worry that the wind might change direction or die down.
When we are young, we need billowing sails because we have so many miles to go. I don’t need as much now—just as much as necessary. The slightest breeze can be more welcomed and appreciated in older age than the great blasts of energy we previously enjoyed. But this comes about only once we avail ourselves to drifting through the sweet joy of life, no longer worrying about where we must get to.
To Continue Reading , CLICK HERE
This excerpt provides a preview of the complete Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wisdom Collection, available now in paperback and Kindle eBook editions. To purchase, click HERE.
____________________________________
Join the conversation about Carol Orsborn’s Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wisdom Collection in the comment section below this entry. To comment on the Collection as a whole, click HERE and scroll to the comment section below the Prologue.
Copyright © 2019 by Carol Orsborn. Permission granted by the author to share this excerpt for non-commercial purposes with proper credit given to Carol Orsborn, Older:Wiser, Fiercer: The Wisdom Collection at CarolOrsborn
Feel free to share this providing proper credit to Carol Orsborn
and a link to CarolOrsborn.com.
