Busy as a Beaver

Busy as a beaver...it's a phrase I've heard countless times spanning my brief 25 years on my journey, but what does it mean? I mean, a beaver is busy just surviving, you don't see beavers playing poker or sun tanning or scrapbooking, they hunt, eat and maintain their homes. Everything they do is to ensure not only their own personal survival, but the continuance of their species. How then, is a human as busy as a beaver when we have so many liesure activities?

I have been very busy lately...for me that is! Jaelyn and I, in the past 2 weeks, have gone to the circus, gone camping, to the lake twice, strawberry picking twice and to a family reunion of sorts. This is, of course, besides the usual everyday activities of coloring, splashing in the kiddie pool, playing with play-do and reading books and what not. But it goes much further than simple survival, for that I am thankful.

Even when I am scrubbing out my anger on a pot in the sink, picking up the millions of toys and toy pieces, general cleaning or out gallavanting, I frequently find many hours in the day filled with emptiness. Either I need to fill those hours, or embrace that fact that I don't have to constantly be doing something, as the beaver does. I'm sure the beaver does not sit in his dam thinking of things he should do, he does them with no hesitation, or he will not survive.

As humans we have a great luxury, the luxury to live, not merely survive. I for one, am determined not to abuse this luxury, not to waste the time I have for living on trivial things, to take advantage of opportunities thrown across my path and enjoy every minute of this great journey we call life!