growing up, it seemed that my mother postponed all of her dreams, her fantasies, her wishes for later..
"i will visit France one day..."
"we will spend the money after we make sure the kids go to college"
" let's just go to the discount store and save so we have more money in the bank in case of a rainy day"
i remember when my mom said out loud, after all the kids had moved out...(honey i had left before my 17th birthday but my brother and sister stuck around) anyway mom said, "NOW I"M GOING TO ENJOY MY LIFE!"
The postponing was over!
The year she made that announcement she had a stroke which left her partially paralyzed and in a wheel chair. 5 years after that she died.
She never did get around to enjoying her life.
I was left with a sad life lesson, a lesson that I have just been reminded of again this past week....DO NOT POSTPONE LIVING
LIVE EVERY DAY YOU ARE ALIVE
Life is so short...and so many people punch the clock, work till they're exhausted and then just trudge home, watch the boob tube and do it again the next day..
Weekends are for laundry, cleaning the house...catching up on sleep and then back to the grind.
No dears. That's not living.
My good pal Margot called me the other day to say she felt like all she does is work and she's tired...soul tired.
I told her what I'm telling myself and what I'm telling you.
This day, today make yourself a pledge and promise this to yourself for the rest of your life.
Every day you are alive, you will do at least one thing purely for the pleasure of it, for your own pleasure, for the simple pleasure and no other reason.
Once a week for the rest of your life, you will do something, anything, you've never done before. You get special bonus points if its something you're a little bit afraid of and obviously I am not referring to a bad or cruel thing.
Today I think I will go for a walk in the rain.
This week, hmmm I don't know...I have a rent-a-car right now...maybe I'll just drive to a town I've never heard of.
I don't want to postpone my life...for a rainy day...
It's raining right now and I'm living right now...
and I went to step out into my life and feel the water on my skin, feel the breeze on my cheeks...
I'll keep you posted
