For what do we wait.

I had an very interesting discussion last with with the couple in the caravan next to me. Now I do not know how we did but we ended up having a fairly interesting conversation about the teaching of Buddhism, called the Eightfold Path. 

This led to a discussion about the frailty of life and as a chemist he does not believe that there is anything that is not in a state of constant change. Now this fits perfectly with the Buddhist belief of Impermanence, nothing last or lives forever.

So the question of the title of this blog and the title of the painting, The Warrior Waits, is simply what do we wait for. Being aware of the inevitable we should wait for nothing but get on with living. Living each precious moment as if it were the last. 

A bit like the couple in this little tale.

Barry returned from a doctor's visit one day and told his wife that the doctor said he only had 24 hours to live. Wiping away her tears, he asked her to make love with him. 

Of course she agreed and they made passionate love.

Later, Barry was getting into bed when he realised he now had only eight hours of life left. He touched her shoulder and said, "Honey? Please? Just one more time before I die." 

She agreed, then afterward she rolled over and fell asleep.

Barry, however, heard the clock ticking in his head, and he tossed and turned until he was down to only four more hours. He tapped his wife on the shoulder to wake her up. "Honey, I only have four hours left! Could we...?"

His wife sat up abruptly, turned to him and said, "Listen Barry, I'm not being funny... but I have to get up in the morning and you don't."

It is all a case of priorities really.

Moving on day for me today everything changes. Where am I going to be at the end of the day? I really do not know we shall see.

Have a great day and make the most of it.