Three Day Quote Challenge - Day Two

Today's quote you can file under the heading of "Things my Mother Told Me". When I was much younger, we kids would always say, I wish it was summer, I wish it was Christmas, or I wish I was old enough to drive and my Mum would say, "Stop wishing your lives away; it will fly by when you are older. Enjoy your youth."

"Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment."

I found the quote when looking for one to capture that idea of what my mother told us so many years ago. It sounds simple but it is pretty hard to do; don't we all just wait for Friday. I know I find it hard; especially now that I have completed 35 years of military and civilian public service time. I've paid all that I can into the pension but have two more years to do before my civilian pension is not penalized. That combined with the Rhine River cruise that I'm doing in September with two of my sisters and one of my brothers-in-law has me wishing it was already summer and wishing I was already retired.  That would be two years of my life gone, think what I might have missed. I'm going to try and take my own advice and enjoy each day.

All Things Collie is also doing the challenge if you want to read their quote of the day.

Three Day Quote Challenge

I wasn't challenged but I decided to go ahead with this challenge anyway, probably because I wasn't challenged to do it.

If you want to see where I got the idea, hop over to Dakota's Den.

I used to keep a journal when I was in my teens, where I wrote down, by hand, poems, quotes and sayings that touched me in some way. One quote that is in my book, yes I still have the book although it's been many a year since I wrote in it, is:

"The main issue in life is not the victory but the fight, the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well."

In my journal, I have no author of that quote recorded so I did a little Google search and I found it is attributed to Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the Modern Day Olympics.

I think this quote has great meaning for most of us. So very few of us achieve great victories but that doesn't mean we can't take satisfaction from taking part and doing our best and we certainly can all enjoy our small victories. I'll never be a great athlete but I can take take pride in setting goals and achieving them.  For me, those goals are in dog agility. And to reach them I have to work (struggle) to develop a close partnership with my dogs. I find it so rewarding when things all come together, the journey there (the fight) is certainly as rewarding as the victory (the ribbon or qualifying score).