What is leisure?
Can one say with confirmation! Is it time well spent up-to one's liking away from daily job work? Or is time spend in idle reflection and reconciliation?
To start this blog, with one of my favorite poems and topic of discussion, Leisure, seems fit, for I have some leisure to indulge in reflections and refraction myself.
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Can any of us say that they have had the time to reflect upon the beauty of Nature, to see a smile light up a sad face, or just watch birds dance to a different music each day.
Have you spent a minute in careful reflection of time to express the joy, though imperceptible in the hardships of daily life and spent that moment in happiness and shared it with the ones you love? Or have you 'missed the bus!'.
I guess today would be as good a day as any!
Gaze fondly out of the window for a moment and see the joy of children playing on the street, escaping from confinements of schools and birds saying their good byes at twilight. Call your friends that you have lost in time and enjoy a few idle moments in recollections of an earlier time.
