Getting younger? Interesting concept, huh? Enjoying life as I live it is something I have always tried to do.
Excitable, enthusiastic, whimsical…3 childlike characteristics I have always carried
I have been reflecting on this past year today, the year I turned 38 years old. The first thing I thought of is that I am even more childlike now than I have been in the past. I feel younger. Not more immature but younger... YES younger. The older I get, the more I learn and the more I learn the more I appreciate life …those people and things around me. I never want to stop learning. I am curious by nature. I want to always cultivate my curiosity. I don’t want to hold back in fear of rejection or in fear of discovering something maybe not so pleasant about myself or another person or an ideal. I love to study lifes lessons and often times restudy them over and over. I love to see what new things I can learn each time. Those are the things that make me younger.
This past year was the year that I have been out of High School for 20 years. WOW! I started pondering what I have learned in 20 years and the list went on and on in my head.
20 things in 20 yrs!
1. There is something wonderful in every situation….we have to look with our heart.
2. Something wonderful in every person as well….we must accept, we must search from our soul to find it.
3. We need to find at least 5 small things to be completely excited about each day!
4. No day should pass without laughter! Laughter is the best solution for most everything!
5. Dance parties are a must….LOTS of them too, even if they are in your living room with your childrens kid cds….especially then and especially when you feel like an overwhelmed parent!
6. Everyone pees in the shower….most people just don’t admit it! Just admit it…it’s freeing!
7. I will never understand stress during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season…it is a time of JOY!
8. One can live through flea, tick and lice manifestations
9. The marriage relationship is very complicated and EVERY couple experiences many ups and downs
10. Girlfriends will always make me smile! GIRLS NIGHTS OUT……A MUST!
11. Everyone has struggles…..how wonderful to be REAL with one another. YES, even people from church
12. The "younger" I get (yes I said younger) the more I understand and appreciate my parents. (even the dysfunction of our family )
13. I love being "me" and feel more free to do so.
14. I am thankful for my many struggles through life….For they have made me the person that I am today!
15. If you have to wait until the New Year to change something then you probably really don’t want to do it. HA! I resolve to change each day things that need changed
16. Perfume and panties….2 very small things that make me happy!
17. It is about "moments" not days….we will always remember moments above days
18. Sometimes connecting with another soul isn’t for life, it is for a season…we can learn from each person we meet
19. Humans long to "know" and be "known". Let others in, it feels great!
20. There is such thing as unconditional love…it’s a choice!
AND BECAUSE, I can never stop talking when I say I am going to, I have one more
21. One does not write about how they feel younger each year until they are actually aging in physical years....RIGHT? haha.
8 comments:
Is today your birthday????
Just in case:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!
we shoud really catch up sometime...I miss me some silly knopfoos!
Love ya,
Jill :)
nope Jill-E today isn't my bday but thanks though....I'll take a bday. Call Brian and tell him to bring me something nice anyway. lol. I was just late writing my New Years thoughts:) You know me!
We miss us some Lee's:) Come visit....don't you want some cooooolllld weather? We've got some.
Hey baby!
How'd I get such a wonderful,sweet, sassy, complicated, intoxicating, beautiful wife anyway? You are the best and I love reading your blogs.
I laughed out loud at your list!
love, me
you are so funny....but NO, I do not pee in the shower...HA!
I love the list, it makes me think about what I could write about in my 20 years too. You are too funny about the peeing in the shower...you know it is true !!!!!
Happy New year and live life too it's fullest.
I'm learning to surround myself with the people I love and I am having to learn to open myself up for people that need. We seem to get comfortable with only own fown friends we forget to give our live away to those who need.
I'm asking God to use me this year and to make a diffence in people's lives. (NO, I just didn't make that up at New year) Ha...Ha...
Missy
That is suppose to say our own friends. OOPS....
Missy
O-M-Geeeee I PEE IN THE SHOWER TOOOOOO! LOL
I hate it when the water won't go down the drain though...
Ya'll come visit now ya hear! hee hee
hi landon this is one of your classmates!! try to guess who this is on monday. i wear contacts.
i have blue eyes. im tall and im a teachers kid. try to guess who this is.i was serching everybodys name to see if something would come up and yours came up on this website obiously and it said post a coment and i did!!!
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