anticipation

'"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best - " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.' A.A. Milne

Sometimes anticipation is almost better than the real thing. All through our lives we anticipate the future. Some of us with a degree of trepidation, others with an almost unrealistic optimism and the rest of us, somewhere in between.

Sadly, many people reach adulthood and ask 'is this all there is?'. The life they had anticipated hasn't come to fruition or if it has, it doesn't feel the way that they had expected it would. What do you do when anticipation is no longer a blissful pastime? Do you accept the way things are or continue to look for new things to dream about?

There's a fine balance between being with the way things are and acknowledging that this just isn't enough.

And quite simply, if it doesn't feel that it's enough, it's not.

If there's nothing joyful that springs to mind when you think of the word 'anticipation', maybe it's time to change something.

What you are anticipating - for the next few months, for 2010 and maybe even for the next five years?
Are there things to look forward to in a whole range of areas of your life?
Are there little things you look forward to every day?