I was driving down the road doing enjoying a yummy milkshake. It was delicious, yet really thick and hard to suck through a straw. ( no, that picture is not the milkshake, but I would drink that up too!)
I sucked and sucked (be nice, this is PG-13) but to no avail, I could only get a tiny taste of my milkshake.
I thought… “This is sucking the life out of me!”
Determined not to forgo the awesomeness of my milkshake, I waited until it melted. Sometimes I wish life was that simple.
Some day’s life feels like it’s being sucked through the diameter of a tiny straw. Despite how yummy it tastes, it is just slightly out of reach.
I decided to contemplate the irony of this situation.
- We like to suck all of life in at once. Perhaps staying present and enjoying the small bits of flavor is just as yummy.
- We are unable to enjoy the delicious side of life because we get caught up in the effort and not the journey. Enjoy the process with a sense of humor.
- Release the difficulties of the straw. Perhaps we can get rid of the straw and see life from a different angle. (take the lid off the milkshake and drink)
- We don’t need to drink the entire milkshake at once. This can cause a brain freeze which will force a lesson in patience.
- We should learn the art of sucking from babies. Their cheeks make it easy for them; sucking is effortless. They have no judgment of the straw or the milkshake. We should learn simplicity from them.
- Maybe it’s not the straw, but the life we are trying to suck up. You may need to decide if what you’re drinking IS your drink of life. Try a different flavor of milkshake, or something else.
- Appreciate the thirst you have for life, even if it comes slow or doesn’t always go your way.
- Get a bigger straw.
- When all else fails…. blow bubbles in the milkshake instead.
Most important, milkshakes, like life are meant to be shared.
KT Cat Paws
Wanna share a milkshake?
The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
From Chow recipes, this is a “drumstick” milkshake. YUM!