I think in order to understand my happiness.....I should describe my inspiration.
For my Social Leadership class for school we read the book A Million Miles in Thousand Years by Donald Miller. The book is all about living a good story; and by good story I mean, living a good, meaningful, purposeful, amazing, adventurous life. You get the idea. Donald Miller was from (what I've gathered) a lazy person who wrote books and watched LOTS movies and TV. Things happened and he realized he wasn't living a good story. So he started to turn his life around and live a good story! It inspired me. A whole lot.
I kept thinking and telling myself how boring my life was. I was so upset with myself. I could have kicked a wall. I woke up, sat at my computer doing school, watched people live their dreams and have adventures, planned epic adventures of my own (not so boring) and that's it. How utterly boring. My life was wasting away! All my life and most double digit birthdays, I would cry to myself and complain to others about how old I was getting and that I would never be able to do the things I wanted to do so badly. That I was going to grow up and became a worthless overwhelmed fat mom who was NOT living her dreams. <------worst nightmare right there.
You see, I have this thing going on in my head, that if I'm not doing something like running a mile everyday, getting ALL my homework done (which is hard for a burger I think), running around like a crazy monkey, changing someones life, going on an amazing adventure every week then I'm a failure. Nothing is good enough. I set my expectations too high.
Because, I have this beast inside me. A chained beast. That craves adventure more than anything. And I want so badly, more than anything to feed that beast in me and let it free. It hurts me to not be able to unleash it and let it free.
But then, earlier this week I chatted my good friend complaining about how short life was, and how I would never be able to do all the things I so badly want to do and how I was a failure and such fluff. My friend responded with this, "Put on some adventure music, remember life is beautiful, we just forget to open our eyes and see it."
And then it hit me like a freight train. The answer to my problems was right there! Right in front of my very confused face. And that realization was that life it's self is the greatest adventure I could ever experience. Life is more beautiful than our human minds can comprehend and beauty is everywhere! Adventure is everywhere. Everyday is an adventure. All we have to do is open our eyes and see it. :)
(I'm not going to fit all this into one post, stay tuned for part two) So join me on my adventure to live in the moment, to see the beauty in everything, and live a great adventure (more epicality to come, just wait, it'll blow your mind), and to enjoy life even more than I already do, because life is truly beautiful and all we need to do is open our eyes and see it. :)
Always remember LIFE IS GOOD.
Today I ran like I was being chased by aborigines, zombies, and monsters (yes all of them), ran around barefoot in the snow, aced my midterms, laughed with the best people in the world, played on the swing set soaking in the winter sun and smiled a whole lot. Life is good and I love it. Even though it sure has it's bumps in the road, it's great no matter what. That is all. I am now going to go dance to my adventure music. (<----Listen to it!)
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