Hi it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Thursday morning and as the week progresses

I wonder whether you're someone who treads very lightly, very steadily through life or

whether you're someone who kind of rushes and I don't necessarily mean physically rushing

me more sort of in the mind. I was chatting to her friend yesterday and he was telling

me that he'd gone out to do the shopping because they're trying to sort of deal with social

distancing and everything else. They've limited the number of times they have to leave the

house so they tend to go for these sort of really big family shops rather than going

sort of on a daily basis. And he was telling me he came home and their youngest one,

their little girl, was delighted. All these shopping bags have been placed on the floor

and she was going through them and getting very excited about all the the new foods, her favorite

foods that come back into the house. And he said that he found himself in the rush of trying

to get dinner ready, working at bath times and bed times and homework and everything else,

almost sort of just brushing her away as though he didn't have time. There wasn't the opportunity

for her to enjoy that experience and he said he felt so bad afterwards because he remembered as a

boy that feeling when his mum would come home with shopping and the excitement sort of that.

They're things that we forget as young children are sort of so important.

And as we chatted a bit more we sort of started to think about what are we rushing towards

in life. And I say this as someone like I do we do this in our house as well. We're so

clued into these schedules and these routines and we kind of we need to get this done by that time

and this done by that day. The very often we don't give ourselves that room to breathe to enjoy

so often in life we are rushing in our minds. We are so committed to a particular destination

in our life that we don't really take in what's happening. And sometimes we take other people with us

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