I watched two gentlemen greet each other at the coffeehouse this morning.
“Kayf haal-ik” they cried out. Meaning, ‘how is your heart today’?
So often, we become caught up in the ‘doing’ of life. We become over-scheduled, over-burdened, over-tired – we lose the joy in ‘just simply being.’
I remember when my children were much younger. “Why haven’t you enrolled him yet,” asked the mother of a very young friend. At just 7-years-old, her son had more activities planned than a presidential envoy overseas.
In contrast, I asked my children to be wanderers and explorers. To climb trees, and scrape their knees – to come home with a little dirt rubbed into their pants. I wanted them to learn to take chances, to swing from life’s branches – to measure time by way of the sun’s position in the sky.
And, at the end of the day, come home exhausted – simply from this ‘task’ of being human.
Kayf haal-ik – how is your heart today, my friend? Sit with me, in this space, and connect – please, for just a little while. Share with me, your deepest thoughts – and help me to understand.
In this space of connection – there is no facade, no ceremonious putting on of airs. Just two hearts, coming together – with a reminder of what it is to be human.
So now, tell me – please, my dearest darlings; how is your heart today?