Stop and smell the roses

On every trip whether short or long, it has always had some life changing moment for me. As I contemplate ways I want this trip to change me, I can't help but think about many opportunities that could also pass me by due to the fast pace hustle and bustle of the city, the cars passing, the horns honking, the lights changing and so on and so on. I want to find a way to slow down, to take it all in. I feel it will be my obligation to share many of my experiences with my family, and Jason since I wont see him all the time. Yes he will have his own experiences to share but no doubt since he will be in school he will have a different mindset. I want to stress to myself that sitting outside at a bus stop, or as I wait in line to eat can have a aha element just the same as wandering through a museum. It is my norm to be thinking about the next thing, and how I can be accomplishing something while I am doing that thing and I can see if I think along this path I might miss the main thing. Perhaps I will work on my brain, and the thinking that it must do, so that I am able to change my thoughts or the path of my thoughts with the minor goal of
s-l-o-w-i-n-g d-o-w-n.