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.
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