Love That Life

Isn’t it weird when a holiday happens in the middle of the week? This has been the strangest week and the only thing I can put my finger on is that we had a day off on Tuesday.

Work has been odd.

But who cares about that stuff anyway!

Today is a new day and I’m fairly happy to be in it. I had a nice evening last night – did absolutely nothing other than watch three Soprano’s episodes and then some bad t.v. It was very refreshing. Had left over hotdogs and hot wings for supper.

Not a care in the world and I slept like a baby.

Which made me think about what really matters. We get all balled up inside about all kinds of things and I am pretty darned certain that most of them don’t mean diddly-squat.

Who are we? What is our purpose? How do we see ourselves?

These are the philosophical things that always swirl around in my head. The cool thing about getting older is that not only does it hurt to get up in the morning but you actually start to answer some of those questions for yourself.

Life is not on cruise control unless you put it there.

If today sucked, it doesn’t mean that tomorrow has to.

I mean, really, what do we expect from life anyway? For me, it’s all about living and the biggest part of that quality of life is love. To love with all your heart.

Few of us will ever do anything epic in our lives. We don’t climb mountains or score the winning goal at the World Cup. Our life, as well as our death, will be of no momentous importance except to ourselves and the people we love.

Our days are spent eating, sleeping, working, washing clothes, mowing the lawn, raising children, getting sick, shopping, crying, laughing, getting fat, losing weight, etc.

Yep, the boring details of our lives. Every day. It just goes on and on and it never stops.

So where is the juice?

If there is to be any poetry or romance or meaning in our lives, it will be there only because we have created it and nurtured it ourselves. Nothing happens without effort.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

It’s really as simple as that.

So today, take stock of what’s important to you and try just a little harder to make it into something remarkable. I truly believe you will be very happy you did.

Peace.