Forgive me for being a bit philosophical today but I’ve just released a track on YouTube that means a great deal to me. It’s a folk song called Only Days and it was inspired by our photo album.
Everybody has favourite photos that capture a moment, an image that brings the memories back of happy times, on holiday or at family gatherings, a picture that crystallizes and experience and freezes it in time. This song flips through our personal photos. I know that your experiences though different from ours – and the images snatched at the time will do the same for you and I urge you to get that album out and have look into your history. Relive those heart-warming moments from the past. For us, Only Days allow us to do just that.
I beg you to realise that making memories is what life is all about – or at least it should be.
This song started with early camping trips – we didn’t have a lot of money when the kids were little – and we would take off for a few days sometimes only a few miles down the road and pitch a tent, just to give the kids the experience of camping. Even the nettle stings and the insect bites were a part of the memories of it all!
We’ve had the great good fortune to travel quite widely and so the song mentions some of those memories too – for these experiences I will be eternally grateful. When we were in Thailand the owner of the cabin we stayed in invited us to join him while he planted a tree. I would like to revisit and see how our tree is doing now! It was quite a few years ago now so I bet it’s grown! We felt deeply honoured to have been a part of that experience. It feels like we have left a little bit of ourselves planted there!
Think about your own experiences! Go out and make new ones. Next time you look out of the window and the weather is shocking (as indeed it is while I am typing this!) get your coat on and go for a walk. By yourself or with someone – get out there and see what experiences might be waiting to greet you. You never know when a story will present itself to you – a story that you can relate to friends, that you can exaggerate for laughs.
Make the most of your lives. This quote, usually attributed to Confucius, says it all: “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one”
Go out and do something outrageous, courageous, amazing, fantastic – brave – bold and above all KIND.
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And if you don’t know what to do – do something. Life isn’t going to come around asking if you want to come out to play – you have to go looking for it.
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