Playing With The Box

Do you remember watching a toddler spend more time playing with the box a gift came in than the gift itself? Often, we’re guilty of doing the same thing. We’ve been given this amazing gift of life and yet we play with its trappings instead of truly enjoying the gift of a new dawn. In the end, love is everything. Expensive clothes, jewelry and cars don’t matter unless you are loved and can love in return. I remember a short movie about a worker at a private plane airport who worked for small wages. The evening before, the young woman he had been dating said “yes” to his marriage proposal. On his job the next morning, this young man was on “Cloud Nine” going about his menial work. A private jet landed and, as he pulled down the stairs, a famous actor stumbled down the stairs looking like a sad dog, miserable that his fourth wife had just announced she was also divorcing him. Wealth or love? I’ll take love and refuse to play with the box.