My new life philosophy is about to be stated…please feel free to scroll past if you just don’t give a foo-foo about the new leaf that I am going to try to turn over…I totally get it and won’t be offended in the slightest. We each have our own leaves to turn and other peoples just aren’t always relevant or important. And, just as a disclaimer: I have NOT figured out the answers to life, the universe and everything…even though I AM 42 this year, and really did expect to have some sort of an epiphany, it just didn’t happen...stupid universe! So if you’re looking for those answers, you may as well scroll on by as well. What I DID have was really more like a ‘blip’ of insight, still not in regard to the answers to life, the universe and everything…but more into just my own life. And here is where I am going to start: YOLO! Oh my god, do you hate this as much as I do? They have a taken a very simple life tenet and made me loathe hearing it! It makes my eardrums just curl in on themselves in all honesty (*shudder*)…but even with that being said, I am starting here anyway because regardless of all the silly hype…it is the truth, simple as that. We all know this. Heck, even if you believe in reincarnation, you only live THIS incarnation once, right? Maybe we should get t-shirts that say YOLTIO?? Anyhoo…my philosophy isn’t anything new…it is 100% based on this concept. What I have realized…well really have always known but just ignored…is that I completely take life and living for granted. There. That’s my blip in a nutshell…how brilliant is that? I think I deserve a Nobel Prize for that little gem! Yay, Elonna! I know you must be bored, otherwise you wouldn’t have even read this far. And I must tell you now, that is about as insightful as I get…the rest of this diatribe is more about what I hope to do to stop being a “granted taker” and start living my life more. Even in little ways. First, I have declared this as “My Summer of Not Staying Home.” Unless I have pressing things to do, such as laundry, sleeping or the like…I plan on being at home as little as possible this summer. Even if it’s just to take a book down to a riverside restaurant or sidewalk café and read while sipping a diet coke…I’m at least not at home and who knows who I might meet or talk to. 90% of anything I do my son can do with me, if he wants to, so it will be good for him too. Second, I’m doing things I WANT to do even if I have to do them by myself. I often don’t do something I really want to because I don’t want to go alone. Well, I may not get the opportunity to that thing again, so I’m going to do it anyway, even if by myself. Some of you were probably invited to my “Movie with Elonna” event. This is part of that concept. I figure if I want to see a movie, other people probably do too and maybe they don’t have anyone to go with, so why not just go together as a group? Plus I will get to know people better that I may not know very well to begin with…which leads to #3… Third, I want to make “new” friends. I don’t mean brand new friends (though new friends are awesome too), but what I would like to do is to re-establish connections that I’ve lost over time or to grow connections with people I don’t know very well but who have somehow touched my life. This is kind of two-fold…first, maybe I can re-establish friendships that were important to me but have dwindled over time…on the other hand, can maybe also weed out relationships that aren’t important that maybe should just be ended instead of just hanging on by a tenuous string of memories that used to mean something. I know, a little harsh…but have to take the bad with the good. Fourth, work on “My Bucketlist”. OK, another term I’m not fond of but it IS shorter than typing “list of things I want to do before I die”, right? I really want to physically write one up. Current one is in my head, and I always forget the little things that I say “ooo, I wanna try that!” Then I want to prioritize it…then say ok, I can’t afford the first half of this list because it’s all travel-related..so get down to the middle-ish part of the list and maybe try to tick off a few things on it. OK, so this is my new philosophy on how I should be living life. There are more little tweaks here and there…but this covers the major points. Would love if anyone else has suggestions on how to not take life for granted?
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:08:11 +0000
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