The Pelicans Have Returned

Pelicans migrate. The migration occurs every year just a sure as the earth  revolves around the sun. Many American White Pelican spend their summer as far north as Alberta, Canada and spend their winter as far south as Texas. These magnificent birds populate many of the inland bodies of water in the region where I used to live, so I got to see them for a while every year. They are truly magnificent birds with wing spans reaching as wide as ten feet. They hunt in packs and consume an average of four pounds of food daily. Watching them hunt as a team is a very impressive and awe inspiring event. While passing one of the lakes where a considerable number of American White Pelicans spend their winter, it suddenly occurred to me that the "Pelicans had returned" another year had passed and I was reminded just how quickly time moves. Because it seemed to me as if the penguins had just left for their northern nesting grounds.

Many of us spend too much of our time "doing" and not enough time "living". We all have just as much time and the next person. Time does not discriminate, everyone is allowed, on a daily basis, the same twenty-four hours to make qualitative decisions as to how the time given, will be invested in their life. When you are making decisions as how to invest your time, take a little time to weight the options and consider if the time you are going to invest is really worth your valuable and limited time. Ask yourself if it will make a difference and if you should you spend more or less time dedicated to the matter. When you are faced with a task or situation that is very difficult and it appears that you may never reach a favorable conclusion, stop and take some time and realize that as life moves on, this too shall pass. Time is a valuable gift and we should treat it as such, just like the pelicans do.