This morning, as I walked into Lily's room, I found her sprawled out across her bed. When she saw me she exclaimed, "HAKOL HEVEL." SHe then proceeded to tell me about the moment each day when she wakes up and decides hakol hevel except for her bed. I can't help but agree with her. The first two minutes in the morning are incredibly difficult. I can't help but to feel exactly like Shlomo- hakol hevel- except for one thing: my bed.
Obviously this feeling is slightly different from that of Shlomo because it does indeed pass by the time I'm eating breakfast. But, for just a few moments there, I understand what Shlomo is saying. Nothing in the day I am about to endure could possibly have any significance. Once I wake up, I feel like nothing in my life truly matters and nothing in my daily routine is of any importance. I get it, Shlomo. I get it.
Once I am fully conscience, I understand that the day ahead is in fact important. I am going to get an education and learn important skills. These things actually are of importance. Sorry Shlomo, but I am going to have to disagree. For whatever reason, I was put here on this Earth, so shouldn't I make something of it? Hakol is not hevel. I can do things that will not only give me purpose in my own life, but I can also work to improve the lives of others. Isn't that worth something?
So, Shlomo, I encourage you to move past those two minutes in the morning and find something that does, in fact, truly matter.
I often get this feeling at the beginning of the day. Not only is everything worthless right as one is waking up, but is also seems insignificant and ephemeral because the days are just going to keep rolling on...I really am not enthusiastic in the mornings.
ReplyDeleteWow, Hannah. If only you were that positive during the day.
ReplyDeleteI feel like everyone has those "two minutes". Mine actually aren't in the morning. I kinda like waking up and deciding what I'm going to wear that day. My two minutes are more in the afternoon time. Like sometime from after lunch till the end of the school day. I hope Shlomo will get over his two minutes at some point also, cause he's kinda depressing me a bit. Like I don't know how many perekim it'll take before my two minutes are increased to three minutes. Oh, and buy Lily some tea. That's been helping me lately.
I feel that it's important that after these few minutes of the morning it's important to realize what you previously accomplished and what you want to accomplish through out the day. Then you realize that every things not hevel.
ReplyDeleteOh man, I have those two minutes, well more like 10 minutes. BUt, after I get up, shower, and leaving for school I see the happiness in the day and the importance of that day. Everyone has their Hakol Hevel moments and I think that Shlomo's was just particularly long.
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