Hold On Wait A Minute
Hold On Wait a MinuteIt was last Christmas and all of my children, including my two adopted children, were home. They are wonderful late twenties young people and over the days we were together we found ourselves involved in some great conversations. One of them had to do with living life creatively. They were reflecting on the road ahead and thinking about how to make it a good journey. To a person they spoke about being open to the unexpected, the moments that present themselves often when we are busy with an agenda, going about completing a to do list; the kind of moments that try to interrupt us and alter our agenda and to do list, moments that offer an incredible richness to our lives if we are able to embrace them with a “Hold on, Wait a Minute” response.
Brad and Anda had recently had such a moment to which they had responded this way. Both had zipped through their professional training. Bad is a CPA and Anda a lawyer. Both had great jobs with all kinds of promise in their respective careers. They had a nice home with a swimming pool in an upscale Arizona community.
But one day they decided to pause and look at their lives, to stop the rush down the road they were on and think hard about how they were living. Out of that hold on wait a minute moment they made a decision to embrace an adventure, to quit their jobs, sell their house and set out on an odyssey to build a microbrewery. So off to Germany they went to brew master school and as we sat and talked they were moving down this exciting life path born out of a hold on wait a minute moment in their lives.
All of them talked about how they didn’t want to measure their lives against the traditional so-called good life template; the traditional conformist life path markers like career, mortgage, acquisitions. All of them talked about living consciously, consciously enough to be able to recognize opportunities to modify the to do list or even abandon it all together and set out on an unanticipated path.
All of them recognized, even at their young ages, how incredibly tenuous and short this life venue is.
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