Monday, October 3, 2011

How Funny Life Can Be...


From the day I started college I had a PLAN.

I would graduate at 21 and begin graduate school immediately.
After satisfying all of my grad school requirements, I would meet the perfect man for me. We'd date for 4 years and be engaged for 1-2 years then I'd get married at 29-30... Have my first child at 32 and adopt my second one (who I want to be older than the child I give birth to) by age 35.

LOL... What actually happened was...

Graduated college without a clue as what I wanted to do professionally and started teaching. I moved in with a new roommate, sometimes roommates, every year until 3 years after graduation I ended up in my boss's house (the result of a slight run-in with some identity thieves and the kindness of the human heart). So October 3rd, 2011, at 24 (25 in 3 weeks which will find me in Las Vegas for the first time ever) finds me in my boss's living room starting a website to share the intriguing details of my life almost a quarter of a century later....

"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"...

Life is neither good nor bad...
... it is neither angelic nor devilish
... happy or sad
... thrilling or boring
Is it possible for one's core to tighten from excitement if boredom has always been unknown?
Is it possible to discern happiness if one's never felt sadness?
Would you recognize the goodness in the people around you if you weren't aware of the ugliness of the world?
Life is all of those things and more...
The beautiful things are much more beautiful because of the ugly...
The happy moments much more joyous because of the sadness of the tragedies...
The adventures much more exciting due to the spent dull times

That picture is how I get through life... with a smile and a drink :)