Every Second

The simplest things have always had the ability to make me happier or to brighten even the darkest of days.    This summer I ran through the sprinkles while surrounded by 7 of my closest friends, making an already amazing weekend all the more memorable and grand.  Just a week and a half ago I let my hair down and danced in an Arizona monsoon.  Some other simple yet smile-inducing pleasures?  Eating Ben and Jerry's Half Baked right out of the carton, drinking hot chocolate while sitting by the glow of the fireplace, ordering pizza in and enjoying a movie with some good friends on a Saturday night, a water balloon fight, jumping on a trampoline, going through the drive-thru car wash while blasting some of your favorite tunes, etc.... 

The list could go on and on.  The most invigorating and uplifting simple pleasure I have ever experienced, however, is a paint party.  The concept in certainly simple enough: DJs spinning, lights flashing, people dancing, paint flying.  I'm going to be honest and admit that as much as I would like to be positive and optimistic about life, there are some things going on now that I would give anything to change, do over, or just erase.  At the paint party, however, I closed my eyes, put my arms up in the air, rocked my hips from side to side, and placed all my current troubles in the back of my mind.  It was when covered in paint, surrounded by strangers, and most definitely embarrassing myself by my dance moves (or should I say, lack of) that it hit me that I am alive.  

Wow, what a concept, you are probably thinking.  Yes, you are alive and just about anyone could tell you that.  But my revelation goes deeper than that.  I am alive and I need to stop dwelling.  I need to start living each and every second of my life, every single breath I take, to the absolute fullest.  Life can change in a heartbeat and the worst time for it to end would be during a period of emotional struggle or conflict.  Therefore I am going to smile whenever I feel like smiling, laugh at my own jokes, dance like a fool at a party, and stop dwelling in the past and asking God for more.  The fact of the matter is that I am alive, and that's the most important thing of all.  

Lyrics of the Day:

" You know what they say

Life aint always easy and everyday

we’re survivors

So forget the day

Its all about tonight at the school and start a riot, a riot be rebel

Bottles poppin til we cant stand

We keep it rockn til 6 am

New York to London over to Japan

Turn it up .. Turn It Up.. Mash it up

We gonna party like

Party like it’s the end of the world

We gonna party like, like it’s 2012

You know that it doesn’t matter as long as we got each other"

-2012, Jay Sean 

 

Clip of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfsgGrHdYXE

This is what I looked like at the paint party, plus paint.  

Life in the Bike Lane

Story of the Day: 

Two of my biggest pet peeves are ones that I encounter on a daily basis while trying to get around the campus of my university.  First, have you ever held the door open for someone only to have them walk right thru without the slightest hint of any appreciation?  Sure bitch, it's not like I have any thing better to do with my time but hold the door open for you.  It's even worse when you are exiting a classroom and end up having to hold the door open for the entire class because no one is kind enough to take the door-holding responsibilities from you.  You were only trying to be nice and for some unknown reason your fellow students don't have any guilt taking advantage of your kindness.

Second,  you know in movies when the protagonist is in a hurry to object to the mistake marriage of his dearly beloved or to stop the love of his life from leaving the country, and he gets stopped on the road by a herd of meandering sheep?  Today I was in a hurry to get to and conquer my 10 a.m. algebra class when a herd of oblivious and dumb as brick students decided they couldn't stop to talk on the sidewalk, but rather in the bike lane.  Are you* stupid?  Do you not see the bright yellow outlines of bike lane that you are standing right in the middle of?  Do you not see the bike riders having to halt on their breaks and maneuver around you out of the bike lane?

*You, referring to those people who  stopped in the middle of the bike lane.  I would never insult someone reading my blog, unless you are in fact one of those people who stops in the middle of the bike lane.  In that case, please learn a lesson from this blog and take it with you wherever you go.  

Life has been pretty crazy for me lately.  There have been so many tears shed in the past week and a half, but I sincerely believe that a) what doesn't kill you makes you stronger b) everything happens for a reason and c) even when my life seems shitty, someone else's is always shittier. Take, for instance, my roommate who lost her dog to cancer and got her car stolen all within a one month time period. Sometimes people, even those I thought I could trust, use me to hold the door open.  Sometimes obstacles get in the way of the bike lane. But I just gotta keep reminding myself that things will get better soon, they always do, and that as long as I have my faith, my family, and my <real> friends I can get through anything.  I'm hurt and recovering now, but someday soon I will be able to keep living.  Who knows, maybe I'll even be brave enough to live outside the bike lane.  

Quotes of the Day:

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow".  -Dan Rather 

"It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all". - Mark Victor Hanson

 Lyric of the Day:  

"You say the weight of the world 

Has kept you from letting go 

And you think compassion's a flaw 

And you'll never let it show 

And you're sure you've hurt in a way 

That no one will ever know

But someday the weight of the world
Will give you strength to go"                 Robot Boy, Linkin Park