if you sit

“Happiness. – A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – L. in The Daily Crescent

I’m a walker.  I like to get my 12,500 steps a day.  Because it’s a goal.

I set goals and I want to achieve them.

But sometimes, it’s the things that aren’t goals that might be of the most importance.

Most people don’t set goals of silence and stillness.  

No one sets a goal of sitting down.

But the constant search for achievement may leave that achievement just out of reach, always in pursuit.

But the pause.

The reflection.

The waiting.

May just allow the butterfly and its joy to rest upon us.