Run Run... or Stand and Stare!

This Run Run... post seems to have been quite controvercial! I can't say I totally agree with what I quoted there, but I found it an intriguing way of thinking about the whole race of life thing (which indeed was!).

Anyway, among the comments was:

"Life is a marathon, not a sprint! And sometimes you need to stay a while and look around carefully. ...".

It is so true, but I don't know why I have this tendency to forget it from time to time! It reminded me of this beautiful poem by W. H. Davis:

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep and cows
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.