My day was a typical day in June. Trying to fit in a 10 hour work day and be present where I needed to be present. When my alarm went off at 5:00am for a minute I wanted to go back to sleep and forget my list and forget about being me. Instead I got up and hit the grind like always. Heck sleeping isn't my thing anyways. I was listening to "Some Where Over the Rainbow" at my little cousins graduation early this morning which is a song that will always associate sadness with me. They played that at my Dad's best friend Dennis's funeral and whenever I hear it I think of him. But then suddenly I was sitting there not sad at all I was thinking about the happy times we had as kids with our Dad's. The crazy things we used to do together when our Moms were brave enough to let us go with them for the weekend. Have you ever been sitting somewhere and your happy memories just start overloading your memory and you have no idea why your smiling? This happens to me all the time lately and I love it. Instantly I was thinking of Billy Joel "We Didn't Start the Fire" a song Dennis made us understand back in the day. I sat there at this graduation just soaking in life and remembering the awesome humans that I have been lucky to know and looking at all these awesome kids that are so happy that school is ending. All those memories of my Dad and Dennis all very ironic since Father's Day is this weekend!
I worked and was able to have some successful calls. I skipped my run because I was busy and wanted to accomplish a bunch today. But then I remembered I needed my steps so during my calls I walked laps around my yard. At the end of the day one of my girlfriends reminded me we had a wake to attend. Not that there is ever a good wake to attend but this was not going to be one we wanted to be at. A husband and father taken away from their family in a tragic accident, I was dreading going. But like I tell my kids you need to be there for people. Since my cousin Jen died and the horror I experienced that week I have this system when I go to wakes I actually go to a different place. Sounds crazy but it works for me and I am able to get through that dreaded line. We walked out of that funeral home and once again I was back thinking about life and memories. My girlfriend and I looked at each other and said let's go to a bar and have a drink. We sat down in a local dive bar and for 2 hours talked about life and how short it is, how unfair it can be. Next thing you know we were talking about weekend trips and all the items on our bucket list we wanted to accomplish. We talked about all the people that make us smile and all the people that don't. We both agreed how grateful we are just to have the lives we do and how we are not going to waste a single minute because we just never know what is in store for any of us.
If your reading this do something you wouldn't normally do tomorrow. Buy someone a coffee at Dunks, make those plans you have been holding off on, be crazy and wild. Enjoy each day to it's absolute fullest. And if you need a kick in the ass to do this text me. #lifecoach #bucketlist #letsliveourbestlife
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