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er the school’s curriculum so there was no reason to delay her just because of age.</p><figure id="ee9c"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*WMjnv47OLYscKnJAEF52tQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@mrthetrain?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Joshua Hoehne</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><blockquote id="5598"><p>Because of her rapid advancement through school Sunni was home schooled.</p></blockquote><p id="adff">Cherry and Cotton were her favorite cousins, and the trio was best friends. They talked about everything and felt it was important to kissing a boy before graduating high school. Neither girl had experienced boys other than interacting at school, church, and chaperoned community gatherings.</p><p id="2572">They were to meet with their friend, handsome Jeremy. He had grown up knowing all three girls and simply adored them all. He agreed he would be the first boy to kiss Sunni. They decided if she was graduating she should not have virgin lips. They were all at their wits’ end waiting to hear from Sunni to know if she was allowed to graduate that spring.</p><p id="8233">The board decided to allow Sunni to graduate early. She could not wait to tell Cherry, Cotton, and Jeremy. Rushing from the back seat of the SUV she skipped happily across the street toward her uncle’s house.</p><p id="ce87">Out of nowhere, a motorcycle out of control skidded around the corner slamming his brakes in time to keep from hitting Sunni. In that instance, everything slowed down. She saw her entire life flash before her eyes and she was not in it. A life rushed through, unlived, and over. Time had run out.</p><p id="f399">The entire family gathered to make sure she was okay.</p><blockquote id="e772"><p>Sunni decided she would slow down and refused to accept the graduation choice. Her constant begging to return to the charter school and be placed in the sophomore grade was finally granted. She was happy to finish high school and graduate with her cousins.</p></blockquote><figure id="1825"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*4bINwNqWOsWSZTUY_QW-mg.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@homeschool?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Levi Guzman</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><blockquote id="b07e"><p>She understood the incident as a sign that she must live her life in intervals not all at once. Sunni did not want to miss life, she just wanted to live each day at a regular speed like everyone else.</p></blockquote><p id="a7c7">So little time and so many things to do. Why rush all day through life? Life offers no promises and has no guarantees. No matter how wisely we use time there will come times when we need to stop, and do nothing. We can only live one day at a time.</p><p id="d24a"><b><i>“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” ~ Mother Teresa</i></b></p><p id="9e46"><b><i>Related stories</i></b>:</p><div id="4d3f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/4-simple-questions-that-help-me-cope-with-uncertainty-bf2b94418c20"> <div> <div> <h2>4 Simple Questions That Help Me Cope With Uncertainty</h2>

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Slow Down and Live

We really do have time to do the simple things that make us happy and bring us joy and peace.

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Why is everyone in a hurry? People everywhere are rushing, hurrying, here and there. Not enough time to finish anything. Is time speeding faster? Is time running out?

“Sit down to the table and finish your dinner, Sunni,” her grandfather reminded her again.

“Why do you rush so much? Where you are heading is still going be there when you get there, you know?” he asked, looking over his glasses at his anxious granddaughter.

Sunni quickly sat down on the edge of her seat and chowed down her dinner faster than usual. She wiped her mouth and scooted her chair from the table. Never looking at her grandfather, she dropped her plate and silverware into the sink and scurried into the hallway and out the front door.

Everyone at the table looked at each other and continued eating dinner at the usual pace. Dinner time at the table with the whole family was expected and the family had always shared everything over dinner. Dinnertime was for helping, answering questions, healing, and getting the low down on happenings in the family.

Sunni had rushed all her life. She was a preemie who at just two months old could hold her bottle and sit alone without help. Once she started crawling, she discovered she could walk at seven months old and ran everywhere from that day forward.

An extraordinarily talented child who could at seven-years-old play the piano as though she were an accomplished player. By the time she was nine, she was allowed to enter the school of music for gifted and talented children. Once she reached the age of twelve, already having skipped three grades, Sunni declared she would become an astronaut and travel the universe just for sport. Being a mathematic genius and ahead of everyone else in science, she was heading in the direction of NASA.

Tonight, she had a meeting with the committee to allow her early graduation at the tender age of fourteen. Very few children had received that honor.

The astute youngster was delighted and could not sit still thinking that she would be moving on. Generally moving faster than everyone else, but to her, it seemed everyone else was just too slow.

Sunni’s parents died in a plane crash in the Rockies as they returned home from a vacation in Colorado. Sunni and her older brother were being raised alternately by both her parents’ parents. The hyperactive child proved to be more than a handful for both aging couples. Even so, they all delighted in her intelligence and vigorous energy.

Grandpa and Granma Esters finished clearing the kitchen and rushed to get dressed to meet with the special school board committee that would tell them if Sunni was allowed to graduate by the end of that semester. There were no more classes for her to take under the school’s curriculum so there was no reason to delay her just because of age.

Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

Because of her rapid advancement through school Sunni was home schooled.

Cherry and Cotton were her favorite cousins, and the trio was best friends. They talked about everything and felt it was important to kissing a boy before graduating high school. Neither girl had experienced boys other than interacting at school, church, and chaperoned community gatherings.

They were to meet with their friend, handsome Jeremy. He had grown up knowing all three girls and simply adored them all. He agreed he would be the first boy to kiss Sunni. They decided if she was graduating she should not have virgin lips. They were all at their wits’ end waiting to hear from Sunni to know if she was allowed to graduate that spring.

The board decided to allow Sunni to graduate early. She could not wait to tell Cherry, Cotton, and Jeremy. Rushing from the back seat of the SUV she skipped happily across the street toward her uncle’s house.

Out of nowhere, a motorcycle out of control skidded around the corner slamming his brakes in time to keep from hitting Sunni. In that instance, everything slowed down. She saw her entire life flash before her eyes and she was not in it. A life rushed through, unlived, and over. Time had run out.

The entire family gathered to make sure she was okay.

Sunni decided she would slow down and refused to accept the graduation choice. Her constant begging to return to the charter school and be placed in the sophomore grade was finally granted. She was happy to finish high school and graduate with her cousins.

Photo by Levi Guzman on Unsplash

She understood the incident as a sign that she must live her life in intervals not all at once. Sunni did not want to miss life, she just wanted to live each day at a regular speed like everyone else.

So little time and so many things to do. Why rush all day through life? Life offers no promises and has no guarantees. No matter how wisely we use time there will come times when we need to stop, and do nothing. We can only live one day at a time.

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” ~ Mother Teresa

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