Big Red Car here.  Raining in the ATX this morning and probably going to rain all day.  WTF, Big Red Car — no happy face weather report?  Haha, Big Red Car, be careful here.

So this day is going to be a bit rainy, so what?  Gets me to reflecting on things.  Hey, I like a bit of rain.  A welcome diversion from endless sunshine plus it won’t even crack 85F today and that’s not all bad, eh?

The nature of time and equal riches

The richest person in the world and you have something very important in common.  Know what it is, Old Sport?

Each of you has been given, today, twenty four hours with sixty minutes in each hour and sixty second in each minute.  You are equally blessed.

So the question is how are you and old moneybags going to spend your equal riches?  How, Old Sport?  Will you savor this day?

Let’s get real

Reminds me of four great friends.  They were an optimist, pessimist, realist and opportunist.  They had been friends for years journeying through life with a different view of how life was to be lived.  Coming together from time to time to compare notes.

They were preparing to share a bottle of wine.  A very fine wine.

They were sitting under a grape arbor in dappled late afternoon sunlight and had opened that bottle of fine wine.  They had decanted the wine in a beautiful crystal vessel and were letting it breath to develop its full bodied taste.  It was a lovely red — voluptuous with delicious flavors, a bit of a naughty wine mischievous with possibilities.  One might say it was a cheeky wine.

Each of the optimist, pessimist, realist, in turn, serenaded the wine and put their own special spin on how it would taste.  How it should taste and be enjoyed given their own particular view of life.

The opportunist drank the wine.  All of it.  While the others were pontificating, the opportunist drank the wine.

This day, Old Sport, be the opportunist who lives life fullest and takes advantage of all of its possibilities.  Who drinks deeply from the carafe of life while others are pontificating.

Pick and savor your flavors

In seizing this day, flavor it the way that tastes the best to you.  Don’t allow the emotions of fear, anger, anxiety, hatred to be your flavors today, Old Sport.

Live it with a splash of adventure, daring and goodness.  Shot of hard work with a chaser of exercise.

When your face confronts life, let it smile.  A smile is less costly than a frown, no?  So let’s go with the smile.  Remember to smile at yourself.

Tonight when your head hits the pillow promise that it will be tired.  That good kind of tired when mind, body, spirit have all lived hard and have challenged themselves and taxed themselves.  In that tired let there have been a good deed or two and a kind word spoken to one in need.  The kind of tired that feels good because it was traded hard for something of value.

Rudyard Kipling had it right:

Go get them, Old Sport.  You and the richest man in the world have the same resource — time — and the clock is ticking.  Savor this day.

But, hey, what the Hell do I really know anyway?  I’m just a Big Red Car.  Got to run, the clock is ticking.