Generations

This will be a short one tonight, I promise.


I had a crazy day that started out with witnessing a high speed car chase.  Crazy, right?!  I thought so.  I'd never seen one before.


After that I went on a road trip to see some family members with my cousin.  It was overall a great visit.  I got to visit my Grandma and after she woke up and realized it was me, her face lit up.  We chatted for a while and toward the end of the visit, she said that she was honored to see me, that I had taken time out of my schedule to go see her.  


I've never thought about it before, but as we left, I realized that I was the one that was honored.  To be able to see her and tell her that I loved her.  I walked out of there with a new perspective.  And I found that so often we take for granted the people in our lives, that we don't listen to the lessons that the generations before us try to teach.  They have so many incredible stories. But why don't we ever listen? Why don't we seek it out? Why is it that we visit them begrudgingly, because we feel obligated?


I want to challenge you if you're one of those people.  Don't wait until it's almost too late to take away what you can from the generations preceding you.  They have so many awesome stories, so much knowledge to share, and so much love to give.  So give it back.  Go see someone you don't even know and just sit with them. I bet you'll come away from it a changed person.