I’m reading the 4-Hour Work Week and Tim Ferris ended a chapter with this poem by child psychologist David L. Weatherford. I thought it was great and worth sharing. I think we could all benefit from this if we read it everyday. Enjoy.
Slow Dance
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go round?
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
You better slow down, don’t dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores running through your head?
You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won’t last.
Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your hast, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die?
Cause you never had tie to call and say, “Hi”?
You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere, You miss half the fun of getting there
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race. Do take it slower.
Hear the music. Before the song is over.
