Be like the hummingbird

My problem with life: There isn't enough time in my day to accomplish all the things I can think about. The mind reaches farther and faster than the eye can see. My body is so limited to the things it can and cannot do, while in my mind there are no perceived boundaries.

I can only eat so much, I could only travel so much, I can only have so many cherished moments. I can only love so much, I can only hate so much. I can only talk so much. If  I were exceedingly wealthy there would be a limit to what I could spend in a day. Worse than all these daily limitations- my days are eventually numbered as well.

The world has so much beauty inside of it, beauty that we rarely get to see because we have our heads in the sand. Buried for the reason of survival because we do not wish to see our problems. And worse, if we focus on solving the problems we have we cannot focus on anything else. Even still, once these problems are solved they become replaced. It is a perpetual realm of defeat.

I saw a hummingbird today, and I feel it was the most fortunate thing to happen to me, because I was solving problems of writing things in a way that translates well to the layman. I was walking to the gym and thinking to myself, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed movement that was too fast to be one of the green lizards that densely populate this apartment complex. And it stuck me, as I watched this dainty creature, how swift it moved from one target to the next, drinking nectar from flowers... 

Look how it wastes no time, how it does not pity itself, how it does not pause to complain about how tired its little wings must be. The hummingbird is not just a diligent creature, it refuses to waste time on things that are not important.

Life is short enough without me wasting time doing and thinking things that I will not even care about tomorrow. Be like the hummingbird.