Just Push Pause

I've been so busy ....doing the pre-holiday shuffle. Spent last weekend in New York walking Time Square. I think the bright lights are fun, but I don't care for the New York hustle and bustle. It's missing peace and joy.... not an ounce of sereness. I have missed some exercise days.... I hate missing them.
I need a revival! I have a plaque in my livingroom... "If you don't PAUSE...good things will never catch up to you." I need some pauses.
Maybe that is why I don't like NYC...there is no pauses. If you dare pause, you will get honked at, yelled at or shoved. Everybody is in such a hurry to get to something, that good things never catch up to them. A city of angry, aggitated people.
I will take a walk in the woods over a walk in the city.

Robert Frost understood the need for pauses and wrote a very famous poem.



Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

I remembering discussing this poem in high school. There is a lot of meaning about life in these serene woods. "Miles to go before I sleep." Means I have a lot of life to live before I die.
Yes, I have a lot of life.....and I need to push pause much more often to enjoy it to the fullest.