life is like...

A bowl of cereal.

Life cereal.

It's what we were serving our kids this morning, along with some toast and some scrambled eggs and some orange juice and some sliced apples.  Typically there'd be some yogurt thrown in there but they'd cleaned us out a day or so ago.

And as we stood there putting the finishing touches on each of the plates before taking them outside to our patio I said, "Okay, I'm ready to put the milk in, are you ready?"

'Cause we all know that life cereal gets really soggy if you don't eat it quick.

"Like life..." said the wife.

That'll preach.

See, life cereal is a great cereal.  I loved it as a kid and still love it to this day.  'Course as I've aged I've realized that it's quite sugar-laden and, as a result, we've turned it into a 'treat' cereal with cheerios being their typical cereal choice.  But I still love it.  It's a great cereal.

But it gets soggy real quick.

Right?

You have to get right to it.  If you let it sit for too long all its goodness will mix into an unappetizing mush that invariably ends up left in the bowl then thrown out.

Just like our lives.

(Thanks Niki...great insight)

So many of us are so frozen by fear--of the unknown, of making a mistake, of failure, of the disapproval of our family or peers, of scarcity--that we spend most of our lives just staring at the thing instead of living it.

We've got ideas that we never pursue, dreams that we never work on for anywhere near long enough to make something of, loves we never actualize, kids we don't engage with, jobs we coast through and spouses we take for-granted.

We don't seize the day.  We don't seize the right opportunity.

We don't eat our life.

So, take our cereal experience this morning and use it.  Take a good hard look at your life and decide on one thing you've put off pursuing, or doing, and eat it.

Seriously.

Consume it.  Take it for all it's worth.  Pour your life into it.  Make that dream come true, knowing that even if you fail in the trying you'll be much further ahead than you are today.

'Cause you know it as deep down in your bones as I do.

Life waits for no one.

Don't let yours get soggy.

T