
I watched a movie the other day that reminded of the freedoms of being young. I had this overwhelming sadness that came over me. Questions like, did I make the right choices, did I choose the right paths or would I change things if I had the chance to go back. I imagined running through Hiawatha Park around 10yrs old without a single care in the world except that it was sunny and the heat was on my back. Everything felt golden and tomorrow was no fear because I would only be adding one more day to being 10 years old. 10 is such a great age for me personally because I had no regrets at all, how could I? Because I had so few years of life at age 10 how could I care about what’s behind me. So then in present time I got to thinking, many people say things like “you only live once” which is used to remind us to live life to its absolute fullest. I decided I don’t like that saying. I prefer to say you actually live every day and you only ever die once. So every day is this blessing. I was in the store the other day feeling stressed about certain things and thought of how lucky I was to be walking down the aisle. On my own two feet, articulate, intelligent and with plenty of friends. So this message goes out there to anyone feeling down. You live every day you wake up and you only die once so breath every minute like it’s glorious because it is. The picture above is of West Seattle, my home town. I love West Seattle.
