Alacrity

Meaning

: Promptness in response: cheerful readiness

Webster provides this meaning to a word that does not often get to see the light of day.  Because most of the responses we dole out are done with lethargy and a half-heartedness that mutes things we would ordinarily be excited about. And that brings me to my point; how much of our lives is simply going through the motions thinking that the timing isn’t right? Or we just don’t have the energy, we claim.  Most often our actions have a lag time attached to them that is we don’t see the effects/affects of things until sometimes much later. Just like our heart rate in strenuous exercise, it takes about 10 seconds for it to catch up with the exercise we have been engaging in.  So my point is why not give every effort all we have?  All we have does not mean that we become obnoxious and get in other peoples faces.  It means that we respond to our lives with alacrity because in those responses our lives will become transformed.  Sort of like dominoes, we push one and the chain reaction lets us observe more and do less.