the good things in life
Gaffled from fireyice. I posted this in a comment in her journal, but I'm reposting here (mostly to have my own record).
When I was a teenager, I thought I'd done everything I wanted to in life and could die content. Now I'm glad I didn't 'cuz I would've missed out on so much! Here's to celebrating what's been done and what's yet to come.
I've:
- emigrated to a foreign country
- got loving, reasonable parents
- gotten to know 3 of my grandparents
- lived in 3 states in the USA
- gotten accepted into a great college
- fallen in love and had my heart broken
- had a fabulous wedding
- got a fulfilling and happy marriage
- grown my own food
- seen the Taj Mahal and the Colosseum in Rome
- watched the sun rise over the Grand Canyon
- explored the Utah desert on foot and by bike
- stayed up all night
- backpacked in the Sierra Nevadas
- got one patent that has my name on it
- learned to scuba dive and snowboard
- learned to draw and paint
- spoken 3 languages
- painted a house
- helped to build furniture
- frozen random stuff in liquid nitrogen
- written poetry
- seen massive water falls, oceans and great rivers
- felt the sand between my toes on 3 continents
- been on the back of a few motorcycles
- seen giant sequoias and watched Old Faithful erupt
- seen two of my childhood friends have babies
- flown a kite
- been underwater with manta rays and sharks
- been inside 1000 year old temples
- watched my baby cousins grow up
- got books that I've read so many that times they're falling apart
- eaten food that I can remember the taste of 5 years later
- gone wine tasting in California, France and Italy
- made snow angels
- built a snow woman in Los Angeles
- bought a car and a house
- operated a full-sized telescope in a dome
- seen an amazing meteor shower
- played chess and charades and monopoly
- stayed at work until most of the lights are off
- seen a show in Las Vegas
- seen a favorite band at a small club
- played records under the stars
...I could go on and on. We forget how few people in the world get the opportunities that we have. Celebrate the good stuff, however small it may seem, 'cuz someone out there hasn't experienced it!
When I was a teenager, I thought I'd done everything I wanted to in life and could die content. Now I'm glad I didn't 'cuz I would've missed out on so much! Here's to celebrating what's been done and what's yet to come.
I've:
- emigrated to a foreign country
- got loving, reasonable parents
- gotten to know 3 of my grandparents
- lived in 3 states in the USA
- gotten accepted into a great college
- fallen in love and had my heart broken
- had a fabulous wedding
- got a fulfilling and happy marriage
- grown my own food
- seen the Taj Mahal and the Colosseum in Rome
- watched the sun rise over the Grand Canyon
- explored the Utah desert on foot and by bike
- stayed up all night
- backpacked in the Sierra Nevadas
- got one patent that has my name on it
- learned to scuba dive and snowboard
- learned to draw and paint
- spoken 3 languages
- painted a house
- helped to build furniture
- frozen random stuff in liquid nitrogen
- written poetry
- seen massive water falls, oceans and great rivers
- felt the sand between my toes on 3 continents
- been on the back of a few motorcycles
- seen giant sequoias and watched Old Faithful erupt
- seen two of my childhood friends have babies
- flown a kite
- been underwater with manta rays and sharks
- been inside 1000 year old temples
- watched my baby cousins grow up
- got books that I've read so many that times they're falling apart
- eaten food that I can remember the taste of 5 years later
- gone wine tasting in California, France and Italy
- made snow angels
- built a snow woman in Los Angeles
- bought a car and a house
- operated a full-sized telescope in a dome
- seen an amazing meteor shower
- played chess and charades and monopoly
- stayed at work until most of the lights are off
- seen a show in Las Vegas
- seen a favorite band at a small club
- played records under the stars
...I could go on and on. We forget how few people in the world get the opportunities that we have. Celebrate the good stuff, however small it may seem, 'cuz someone out there hasn't experienced it!