Occasionally life will give us a kick up the arse to remind us what’s important. What’s really important.
A proper health scare will do it. A near miss on a busy road will do it. The death of a close friend or family member will also do the trick.
They all force us to look at what we’re doing and ask ourselves “is this really what I should be spending my time with?”
They offer moments of clarity which we can either pay attention to and use as a compass – or we can ignore and go back to our relentless job / distraction / doomscrolling.
These moments are a good kick, but they don’t have to be the only ones we get.
If we take a moment each day to think about what we have, what’s before us, and what’s important, we can be more purposeful and more deliberate, more of the time.
The kicks, when they come, will always remind us. But we don’t have to live like zombies in the moments between them coming around.
And we certainly don’t want to rely on them as our only reminders.
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