Can you
disconnect but yet still be engaged? Please don’t get me wrong, disconnect for
me isn’t laying on the couch stinking but rather more of a leaving the
unnecessary busyness of life in the back ground vs. at the forefront taking
over and running the show.
I’ve been
fortunate to be able to spend the last couple of weekends out in the mountains,
my favorite place to be. Although a
weekend alone is a short time, it was made sweet with the leaving of the hustle
and bustle and distractions of everyday life. I am finding for myself that a
little disconnect is just what is needed for me to stay engaged. I am very aware that it’s a slippery slope
and very individual as to where that line is for each individual, this is where
being very aware and in tune is key.
I have found real growth recently in this
perspective. I have found new and
renewed passions and have found myself more engaged and slowed down in
individual moments that together are building toward goals I have for myself.
With this realization my goals have changed a little and therefore my plans and
actions. I’m not exactly sure what all the reasons are to where I find myself,
maybe being tired, maybe finding a shift in priorities, maybe the realization
that time is going fast and the moments I have in this place at this time are
only here for this moment so I need to enjoy and relish each one. Or maybe it’s the realization that I won’t
always be capable of doing everything I am at this time or that the people in
my life now are not a guarantee for a million more moments, so spend your time
carefully. I have no doubt it’s the combination of all these and more. I find as I get older with more experiences
and lessons under my belt, I am starting to view things differently, maybe at
45 I’m finally starting to grow up and get a little more of this wisdom thing I’ve
heard so much about.
So at this point
my disconnecting may appear to others as disengaged but I’d have to argue that
that would be only an outside view and a very small picture as to where I am. I
believe I am where I am meant to be right now and still moving in a forward
motion, with steps back along the way.
More lessons and more growth continuing, the moment you stop learning
you stop living.
Alana Regier
Pictures from last weekend up in Grande Cache, each moment treasured! Last pic was the only guns I had to fend off the bear, never ran so fast, not sure which one of us ran faster to get away!