Happy Turkey day to all. I know you’re all excited for heart-warming moments, good eats, friends, family and memories to come during this lovely break. Last year I talked about the importance of Thanksgiving and how ridiculous Black Friday is because being at a home with your family is more important.. This year I’m looking to throw out just a few more things for you to ponder upon.
For all the food lovers out there like me, I have three suggestions.
One: consume massive amounts of prohibited carbs and cals. I don’t care if you’re a calorie counter. Stop being obsessive and let go… of a few belt holes.
Two: enjoy some down time away from school, work, stress and any unnecessary decisions. This isn’t a time to continue you’re mood of ‘what if’s’ and ‘buts’ and blah blah. Whatever. Shut your mind off. Go see your friends if its been a while. Grab some hugs and share stories. Whatever you wish.
Three: go on an adventure. Whether its a Midnight Snack, a long car ride, or a scenic walk with music and an endless stream of thoughts…
Without adventures life is boring. Plain and simple. Throw a little color on the canvas and work around it. Create a gorgeous masterpiece in which you never intended to put together in the first place. This pertains to most things in life. If you have a certain prospect that you must deal with, put that in the middle and then start to work around it. Meet somewhere in the middle. No one can correctly predict a future stage one hundred percent so why not make the best of it?
I’ve been inspired to take several new paths lately that involve free will behaviors. Treating a circumstance as ‘just an experience’ is not to be used as an excuse for everything. If you made a mistake, then you made that mistake because you wanted to, and sometimes I think that mistakes are repeated because they were generated in the first place. That’s not an adventure to say the least. That’s insanity.. Label an experience what you will, I suppose I can’t judge what categorizes a positive experience or a negative one. That’s just not my place. But, how I see it is if you learned something and gained references out of a situation, then you have experienced something. Whether or not it was an adventure is your call.
Make assignments an adventure by adding to the recipe of subjects. For such an organized and high maintenance eighteen year old, I live larger for the days that I don’t make a to-do list simply by taking a deep breath and jumping into something. I’m enjoying life day by day and not looking back. Sure I have a future, goals, and expected experiences, but with those experiences i’m expecting to have an adventure.
“All we got is each other must love radically, passionately peaceful fight for it fanatically, premium on people magic humanity. Dance as if no one’s looking, sing like no one’s listening. Live and love out loud and let your spirit glisten.” ~Brother Ali