Want to try something fun today? Something that might push your boundaries a little bit. Maybe even make you a tad uncomfortable? But will (most likely) bring a day of total relaxation and bliss for your entire family?
Let them be.
Just for one day.
Photo by Katherine O Brien
Got a toddler who doesn’t want to take a bath? Let it be. Got a partner who doesn’t want to go to a party with the family? Let it be. Got a teen who wants to sleep until 2 in the afternoon? Let it be. Got a kid who doesn’t want to stop playing in order to come to the table to eat supper? Let it be. Got an adolescent who wants to lay in bed all day reading even though it’s lovely out and you think he ought to be outside playing? Let it be. Want to stay in your pajamas all day? Let it be.
Just for one day. Let it all just be.
Let everyone and everything just be what it is.
I know it can’t really be like this all the time. There’s too much going on and there’s too many things that need doing. But I wonder if for one day, if we played at really just letting it all be, we might realize that sometimes, we can let things be a little more than we do in the name of everyone getting what they need.
I wonder. What would happen.
And since we lose an hour this weekend anyway, it seems like a perfect time to try it out.
5 Comments to 'Let it be'
March 8, 2012
Seems to be a universal theme with Solar Flares bearing down on us – Nice post !!
March 8, 2012
hah! I like it, after i try it on myself I will try it on all around me
March 9, 2012
What a great idea. Why not link it with daylight savings every year? Call it ‘spring forward and let it be’. Or something like that. As a kid we used to have one day each summer called ‘stay up as late as you want night’. What a fun day that was to look forward to when we were little! And we had it for many years until we got older and my Mom chased us all into bed when we were making a racquet at about 4 in the morning! That was the last time we had that!
March 12, 2012
Hey Snow and Surf,
I always heard from my older siblings about stay up as late as you want night but never had it myself. Sounds like a great idea!
March 17, 2012
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