The phrases Stop and smell the roses, Take it easy, Don’t work too hard are all ones I have said to someone or have had someone say to me. It is nice to take it easy once in awhile, but if I had to choose I would rather be busy. Not busy with just work but busy with life. At a couple of different points in my life I spent too much time drinking and not enough time living; I have spent too much time working and not enough time with my friends or partner; I have spent too much time traveling for work and not enough time establishing any roots; I have spent too much time doing unproductive and unhealthy things. I often wondered where the days and weeks went while I was busy but busy doing much of nothing. I realized today that I hadn’t thought about my blog or our new website in weeks. Why? Because I have been busy living and enjoying life. No need to bore with details but life is good, this year awesome and we still have half a year to go!
Often when leaving a restaurant, hopping out of a taxi or walking out of shop I hear Man Zou which in English translates to Walk Slow and means much the same as take it easy. Yet another example of no matter how different our cultures may be the are just as similar. Whatever your plans this weekend or rest of the month, remember to walk slow and stop and smell the roses because life is too short and full of too many opportunities to create memories to wonder where the time went.
Curious as to why you chose “wordpress” over 360…any input?
Thanks for visiting me here Arthur! There are a couple of main reasons I chose Wordpress over 360 and any other blog site.
First, there is no need for someone to register to leave comments. Most of the people reading my blog don’t have Yahoo IDs so I wanted to make it easy for them to leave a comment if they wanted.
Second, more ways to personalize the site and no ads.
Third, there is no way to export all of my blog entries from Yahoo, only the last 10. If I ever want to change my blog from here, print out or have a backup I can do it very easily.
Also, Wordpress can be used with ones own domain or on another host besids at Wordpress.com
We are using Wordpress for our new website http://andyandpeilin.com/
Yeah, but seems it is hard for me to read your comments, maybe i am getting old? my dad said old people has bad eye sight!
You will always be younger then me!
When Chinese say “Man Zou” or “Walk away slowly” it is a polite way for them to indicate that they had been so ecstatic to have you in their company that — if you MUST depart — that you do so slowly! It’s part of the over-the-top Chinese decorum.
I sometimes enjoy walking away in slow motion as a joke back. Sometimes gets laughs.