I walked through a cemetary today. I stopped at my twins' graves, before I soon found myself slowly juist walking around aimlessly. I was paying attention to the years that people were alive, the years that some of the people were married and also of the years that those people was alone without their partner. The more that I looked, the more that I felt the whole world in its entirety around me just simply start to slow down a little bit. My gravestone is not going to state my income, it is not going to state my salary, it is not going to state the amount odf social media followers that I have and it is not going to state the mundane tasks that I preform on a daily basis. I suddenly found myself caught up in the pace of life, all the while failing to see the silver lining to it all. There have been moments where I have blinked and I found myself months down the road and I cannot even seem to recall what it is or was that I did or even just where all of that time went to. A truth that I have realized this past week is that life passes by at such a quick pace. We are here for only a short period of time in the grand scheme of life. II also realized that all too often I get lost in all of the daily activities that does not even hold no true meaning in the long run. I realized that I stress myself out about the things that does not even hold any true value kin life at all. There is a reason that a global phenomenon is love and parenthood; To create a life, to shape that life and to also guide that life. That is truly powerful, but to do this all the while holding the hand of another person as a family navigates through life-I think that this is what life is really about. Crystal K. Floyd January 26, 2020