Some thoughts of life are contained in the middle of the blog. While we're sure it will raise contrary arguments, we'd love to receive criticism or comments.
Gone fishing one early Sunday morning. The tranquility at Poway Lake is wonderful, the action on the mountain
is equally marvelous.
Close by, at Iron Mountain, but always a different perspective.
The 'dam' wall's reflection was charming.
Height, haze and happiness at the peak.
Bear with us as we pose a question and follow through with a few more.
Let’s say we have a finite number of years to live. By finite, presume the exact number of days is known. For this purpose, stipulate a period of just a year. Thereafter, we shall pass from our world. Knowing this, would we change our lifestyle?
We’re going to answer for all and say you probably would. A better question might be what would you do differently? Perhaps you've thought this through and have a list of desires you wish to accomplish, things to do you have dreamed of as well as activities in which you should have involved yourself. Should you not have thought much about it then you are either most content with life and therefore fortunate or you might be miserable or at least, stuck in a rut.
Let’s ignore the first supposition which describes a person whom is completely fulfilled. I wonder how many people can truly admit such a state of being. Anyway, let’s continue. We’ve reached the juncture where a person freely admits that should his/her ‘end-of-life date’ be known, such a person would change lifestyles. Armed with this knowledge, would a person remain employed in his/her current position?
There is but one more question. Just before doing so, consider whether your answer to the question above would change if your ‘termination’ date was sooner: 6 months, 3 months or a week.
I think the best question to pose might be: ‘Why would it take something so final as impending death to change an attitude toward life?’ After all, life is all we have and therefore, should we not try to live it to the full? Secondly, do any of us know how long we shall live? The example of a year may, in fact, be generous.
With this is mind, we changed our attitudes toward life, business and employment and everyday routines and decided to ‘Seize The Day’ (Carpe Diem). We have our way of doing things, which we admit is not everyone’s ideal, but it works for us. To this end, we captured the essence of our lifestyle in a book recently published which encompasses our life on the road as we hike mountains in many parts of the world pursuing an adventure as part of our function on Earth. The book, “A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize The Day together” is an easy read. It contains photographs, too, from scenes of our beautiful world, anecdotes and stories and interaction amongst different nationalities and cultures. We believe it should entertain while providing a little food for thought in contemplating an attitude to life. We make one further point. Attitude change is not a ‘one-off deal’. Each day, we awake to re-establish, usually with much effort, a positive and meaningful attitude.
For readers' comments, a summary and availability of the book, take a ‘click’ to Amazon.
And now Iron Mountain after a start in the dark.
Sun bronzes some of the mountains below the "Iron"
Sean Bradford, a wonderful young man, welcomes the sun at Iron Mountain peak.
A different angle, a little earlier, too.
Cheers,
Jenni and Jeffrey
