First, SUCH a good movie. Seriously, go watch it. Right now. Second, yesterday I was feeling a little tired of my "normal" life and my everyday problems. So I decided to dream a little. I think it's ok to dream once and awhile. Thinking about the future helps give me hope. Dreaming helps me relax and refocus on WHY the things I'm doing now matter. When I think about where I'm GOING it helps me be happier about where I AM. This is what I came up with for my bucket-list: -have coffee with Bob Goff, and be real friends. and maybe sweet maria too?! -learn how to slow dance. like really, because right now its bad. -buy land in the mountains by my parent's and grandparent's cabins. -get a tattoo -meet a guy I dig, plan a kick-ass wedding, and ham it up. -have balloons and confetti released from the ceiling like I'm a rockstar. -be on YL camp program. -have babies. (from Africa or from my uterus, either one is good) -get a contract with Lonely Planet as a writer -graduate nursing school, be the best nurse ever. -go to Mardi Gras in Louisiana, and PARTY. but not too hard. -buy a kayak, and go every weekend. rain or shine. -experience the miracle of dog birth, take care of a litter of puppies and give them away. -own a rooster -write a book -go to something fancy enough to wear my Hollywood dress. you would understand if you saw it. -be an aunt (no pressure, Ally) -make up my own holiday -watch a conjoined twin surgery Where we are is so little about what we have or what we want, but who we choose to be moment by moment. Don't let yourself get stuck in the muck of today. It's just one day, one time, one place. Look at the big picture and inspire yourself to continue on. Our lives do not develop in one moment, but in a long string of choices made each day, every hour, and any second. Dream big about who you want to be. Then stand-tall, set yourself straight, and walk towards the future. Take a risk in each moment to invest in tomorrow. Be bold enough to choose who you are this second, today. You don't have a say in who you were yesterday, but you have a voice in who you are today and tomorrow. I think we forget how much freedom we have to choose our own paths. There is so much you can't change in this life. The one thing you can always change is your direction. Don't give-up on today. The moments that feel like they don't mean anything are leading to tomorrow. Changing diapers or doing homework or going to work all play a part in our wildest dreams. We must choose to give meaning to these times in our lives because how we live in today dictates the life we wake-up to tomorrow. This is me when I was eight. I had no idea who I was becoming or who I wanted to be.
Believe it or not, I still have that jacket sitting in my closet. I grew into it, I became a person. Now I look ahead 14 years and think what kind of legacy will I live along the way? How can I move towards that woman today? [There's a fish posing with me. It definitely wasn't my first one, but we were fishing in the rain and I think my dad was trying to keep me hyped.]
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