Points2Ponder

                                     Points2Ponder

                                                                                                       By Alan P. Scaglone

So… I spent the day alone…and I wasn’t lonely.

My wife is out of town this week. Her daughter Lauren is getting married Saturday, and it is a wonderful time for mother and daughter to spend together, sharing lifetime moments that turn info lifetime memories that are cherished and treasured… for the rest of your life.

And I would do anything to make this moment perfect for my wife—even if it meant not going!

That was my gift to her and her daughter—this time together, with no tension or pretense.

Maybe you have a perfect life with everyone getting along all of the time – we haven’t had much of that story when it comes to our children.

She has three, I have three—we thought we had six kids together, but… sometimes, you just have to accept that “it’s not the way we planned it, it’s just the way it is!”

And…for us…it’s just the way it is!

Back to my day alone!

I got up Saturday morning, and I took myself to breakfast at a little Cuban Café in Winter Park, Florida that serves really good café con leche and pan con montequilla—

In American…they serve coffee with milk and bread with butter! It just sounds better saying it in Spanish!

Winter Park is in interesting, upscale town, with a central park lined with shops and restaurants.

I sat outside, dunking my bread with butter in my coffee with milk – yes, you read right! I dunk my bread into my coffee!

Growing up, this was our breakfast in the winter. We had coffee and bread and… off to school! From first grade on!!

Guess someone should have told us NOT to feed coffee to a first grader—who knows how much better I would have turned out??? Yeh Right!

I am sitting outside, with a nice breeze flowing, sun shining, people walking by, and I think “I’m alone, but I’m not lonely!”

POINTS2PONDER  Why do we assume that we have to always be with someone to enjoy a moment? Why can’t we just enjoy our own company? When’s the last time you took yourself out?

I got up and thought, “What do I want to do next?”

Then… I just did it!

I walked through Restoration Hardware; meandered through Pottery Barn(bought an interesting blown glass item!).

Before I knew it, I was crossing the street, headed into Rollins College.

For those who have read my first novel “One Unexpected Event”, you will remember that the main characters graduated from Rollins College.

I walked up and down the streets, went into the Library, found a dorm called Genius Hall – Have to wonder “do you have to show your SATs to get in?”

Then I found a lake that Rollins is nestled around. It was beautiful!

 I saw a kayaker standing up kayaking! Never saw that before.

I discovered Rollins has a private beach—that’s where the picture is from. I helped myself to a chair and sat for a spell and watched life go by.

It was interesting to see all the things you see when you are not in a hurry getting to all the places you have to go—you may want to ponder that for a while!

Then I found a street, conspicuously called “Lakeview” and I said, “So here are the houses we’ve been looking for!”

And they were—beautiful!

I walked through that central park—children playing, parents chasing them, grandparents sitting, cheering them on, and I thought “Life is happening before my eyes and yet…I’m an observer!”

I was enjoying my own company… and not lonely at all!

I couldn’t remember the last time I took myself out on a date, but I promised myself, “We’ll do this again, real soon!”

Try it sometime!

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