Living your best life
Employer he asked
No retired
Living you best life he said
First response, hmm I don’t know
Got me thinking how many times and seasons in my life
Really have been living my best life
Transience
lasting only for a short time
The transience of life and happiness
“Should we try to live forever…
What once was will never be again…
The question is: how are we supposed to live such an unthinkable thing?….
… longing, and maybe even mortality itself, are a unifying force, a pathway to love; and that our greatest and most difficult task is learning how to walk it.”*
Red Roadmaster bike riding till sundown
Last day of school till summer vacation
Waiting at the bus stop finding out you have a snow day
No phones or alerts
just waited in the bus shanty till the bus didn’t show
Time, passing especially quickly
Living your best life
Building a log cabin in grade school during recess
Back then we could bring hatchets to school on the bus
Maypole on Mayday
and huge bell in the tower, pulling the rope ringing the end of recess
Junior high clubs, friendships still make you smile
First kiss on school bus, playing spin the comb, unforgettable
Transient beauty
Living your best life
Girlfriend, summer days lakeside Heartbreak love songs on AM radio
Transitory, now gone with the wind
College field trips with best friends back then, moonlight walk
Wallops Island and Chincoteague
Bound to change, pass, come to an end
Hotel California playing in the bar while playing pool together
No thought to the reason we were there
Living your best life
First job you thought you hit a gold mine
later to find
First love, brown eyed, girl, dressed in white, cross on her cap, black band stripe, hair tucked tight
Until one day saw her hair down at Sheetz,
Dressed attractively and her eyes
we fell in love and in faith
Wedding day dancing, surrounded by those who love us
Gowns and tux, flowers and class
Fleeting, time appears to transiently continue on
Living your best life
Children’s birth
Good night moon
Really did have it all
Grade school teachers conference
Junior high assemblies and Senior high concerts, sports and plays
Summer days oh, let them never end
Graduation days high school
Graduation day College, Grad school
Visitors passing through a place with only a brief stay
Living their best life
Sojourn to Wedding days
Ski vacations
Beach vacations
Wakes and laying to rest
Visiting from sea to sea
Saying goodbye
Grandchildren each so different
Retirement
After school kids
Living your best life again and again
“Take chances, take risks,
Try to appreciate the things you do have,
Surround yourself with people that bring out the best
Happiest moments among the most mundane times
Affecting something or producing results beyond itself
Transient beauty
Living your best life again
Living your best life, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta
About this Poem: Living your best life is about the transience of life and happiness and how each part of life is so good. Reflecting on childhood memories, high school and the first kiss, college and the first love, thoughts of love at first sight and young married life. Children and the years between birth, college, marriage to grandchildren. Family vacation for nearly 40 years and the blessing and change of retirement. And of course, the loss of those we love, the missing and memory. Living your best life is truly appreciating what you have and those you have around you, all times you live, knowing that this beauty transcends this brief life. - Joe Holuta
* Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
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