So, lately I have been thinking a lot about how I live my life and how I tend to always look forward to the fun stuff and begrudge the not-so-fun stuff. The typical, "I wish it were the weekend", or "I can't wait for vacation", or "If I can just get through work today, then tonight will be awesome!" That kind of thinking. However, when I stop and think about it, I really don't want to live my life waiting for the next fun thing. I want to be able to enjoy everything, the good and the bad, the easy and hard, the boring and exciting. So lately I have really been trying to enjoy the journey of my life. To think instead, "I am excited for this one thing but look at all the things I get to experience between now and then. How cool is that?"
Today happened to be one of those "I'm looking forward to the day" days but it didn't come without it's fair share of varied life experiences to keep me on my toes. Here's what today's journey involved:
- Running back to my apartment after being at work for a mere 45 minutes to do a very quick clean so a potential renter could see my apartment. Then returning to work all sweaty and smelling like Glass Plus.
- Finding out that my closing costs were $1000 more than I was expecting exactly 30 minutes before I was to sign the papers and hand over the check.
- A lovely lunch and a chance to decompress with one of my favorite people.
- Working until 9:30pm (since I only had 3 hours combined as of 4 pm)
- Slicing my thumb on the top of a soup can as I attempted to prepare dinner at 10pm.
After today's experiences, I wonder what tomorrow will be like? However it turns out, I intend to enjoy the journey!
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One of the EFY sessions I attended way back when had the theme "Joy in the Journey". I think that it's kind of stuck with me ever since. Not that I don't catch myself trying to just "get through things" too, but life really is found in the living of it, you know? :-) And it's awesome.
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