The Power Of Pause : Embracing Life's Shortcut

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Hello, beautiful people! Welcome to my blog. It's a pleasure to have you in this space. Once again, welcome 🤗

This week's prompt got me thinking. When I saw the topic, the first thing that came to mind was the cheat code for life. Who doesn't want to know what the future holds? Imagine having access to the exact questions that would be asked in the exam, or getting to know how that high-stakes meeting would go, or the unfolding of every moment in your life.

Having the cheat code for life would be the perfect idea. You have nothing to worry about; no more life's surprises; good bye to anxiety and life's uncertainty. You have pure control of your life.

As amazing as it sounds, with time, life would get boring. Because there's nothing to look forward to. The thrill of achievement, anticipation, excitement, relief, and joy would not be there because you could predetermine the outcomes of things to happen.

After much thinking, I have decided to settle for something else.

So if life had a shortcut and I was asked to choose one, I would go for PAUSE. I would press the pause button to freeze time for me to appreciate every moment in my life.
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Reminiscing on how I lived during my university days made me miss a lot of things and people I either took for granted or didn't appreciate as much as I would now.

I was so busy with school and church activities that I didn't take out much time to appreciate some beautiful moments.

A few months ago, my neighbor's daughter was complaining that she didn't want to go to NYSC camp. I smiled and told her to go and make sure she enjoyed every moment of it because time would come that she would miss.

We get so carried away with the big things happening around us that we forget the very little things that culminate in those big events. For instance, as a mother, I'm raising my second child, and he's a total departure from what his sister was when she was his age. Though a toddler, I still miss some very fun moments about her when she was much younger. She has her own drama she brings to the table, which makes her current age a little difficult to deal with. Sometimes, I just wish and say in my head "can you just grow up and stop behaving this way" but deep inside me, I know when she grows older, I will miss this stage of her life. So I am trying to enjoy this stage of her life, while finding a way around the drama that come with it.

I have had my own fair share of pains and because i was more concerned with surviving it, I did not take my time to learn all the lessons those pains came to teach me.

I may be young in age, but trust me, I have lived through wonderfully remarkable moments, and I went off in a haste and forgot to savour the moment. I have experienced many unique seasons in my life and if I had another chance at life, I will take my time to enjoy every bit of it.

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This is a good cheat code. Pausing to savour the beautiful moments of life and enjoy every minute of it as it goes by sounds amazing.

You are right o, sometimes we get caught up in so many activities that we fail to cherish the beautiful moments that spring up. Life can really fly by in a twinkling of an eye.

Couldn't agree more. We need to slow down and savor every moment of our lives, not just milestones

Yes oooo

The pause button! If only we could pause the moments and enjoy the memories right? It would be beautiful if we had that function.

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If only it was possible, life would be a beautiful slideshow of cherished moments 😊

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So more like you’ll pause reality to take things in slowly? That sounds like a great thing to do and it sure should come with fast forward too.

Lol 😂 😂
To fast forward those annoying moments right