"Young Puppy Love" sauntered past on the beach, holding hands, swinging arms, young adults in their '20s. SO in love, so obviously enamored, so adorable. Puppy Love - don't we miss it?

We witness someone else in life in whatever looks nice and pleasing, and we heave a BIG SIGH. We cannot stop looking after them, staring at them, putting ourselves in their flipflops ... and we do the "i-wish-i-wish-i-wish" song and dance. Does this sound familiar?

"Oh, I wish my husband would hold my hand like that."
"Oh, I wish my husband would even walk on the beach with me!"
"How I wish we were that young again." (we're not)
"Oh I wish we had those smooth shapely taut bodies again." (we don't)

Or whatever else we're wishing and thinking as we wish we are in someone else's shoes.

Oh I wish I could stop staring at them is what I was wishing!

Yes, I fell into the "i-wish-i-wish-i-wish" sandtrap and noticed I ceased looking at the beautiful beach scenes: the creative arrangement of a white sand castle someone had crafted, with pieces of red coral sticking up from it and several colorful sand toys decorating it. I wasn't being more careful to stare at the setting sun and view the magnificent sky colors as it swirled some crayon magic. I wasn't watching the seagulls comically curse at each other and chase fellow birds around in circles. No, I was too busy 'wishing' on the Puppy Love Couple.

If we cease staring at what we 'wish' and concentrate instead on our surroundings - what and who is beside us, and where we are - we shall do much better than wishing away thoughts and time.