Maybe Next Time

by Cesca Major

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life. Buddha

We need to keep carving out time for each other – it’s so easy to just collapse next door to each other and not really talk.

‘I think what I’m saying is maybe this could be, like, a wonderful thing? An opportunity to really get to know them, to re-connect?’

was an opportunity to cherish them in the moment.

I lifted my chin a little higher, focused on the path ahead. They were thoughts for another time, not when I was trying to see things in a more positive light. Not when I was trying to see it as a gift.

I’d been missing so many of these small, precious moments, not just in this loop but before too, leaping ahead on the To Do List in my head rather than pausing to look around, to feel, to taste, to smell: to live.