“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” ~Twain
Someone found this quote for me and I believe it is quite appropriate for this time in my life. (Leave it to Twain to be so straightforward and wise.) As the new year begins and my life after college stretches in front of me, I ask myself, what opportunities and adventures will I have in these next years of my life? Then I say to myself, "Self, don't let life pass you by. Take advantage of the little things."
Someone once told me that the only things in life which are eternal are souls, so why wouldn't we invest the greatest amount of our time discovering other souls? One of my favorite songs about priorities and people is by Sara Groves. She sings, "There's always just one more thing/There's always another task/And everything is important/But everything is not/At the end of your life your relationships are all you're got/And love to me is when you put down that one more thing and say/I've got something better to do/And love to me is when you walk out on that one more thing and say/Nothing will come between me and you." Something tells me that this is true. I just forget it far too often. It's learning to linger, to overstay a welcome at the risk of self discovery, to prop up my feet and to slow down, learn the fine art of being who I am. (more Sara Groves).
My first step in this year of taking advantage of every opportunity is to go on a senior year celebration trip to Italy for 12 days in April. Candace and I will be in Florence for Easter. We hope to drink in Italy's beauty- Venice, Rome, Bolzano -and have a few adventures together before we graduate and head into our careers. We may be out of money when we fly home but as everyone says, you are only young once, right?
Someone found this quote for me and I believe it is quite appropriate for this time in my life. (Leave it to Twain to be so straightforward and wise.) As the new year begins and my life after college stretches in front of me, I ask myself, what opportunities and adventures will I have in these next years of my life? Then I say to myself, "Self, don't let life pass you by. Take advantage of the little things."
Someone once told me that the only things in life which are eternal are souls, so why wouldn't we invest the greatest amount of our time discovering other souls? One of my favorite songs about priorities and people is by Sara Groves. She sings, "There's always just one more thing/There's always another task/And everything is important/But everything is not/At the end of your life your relationships are all you're got/And love to me is when you put down that one more thing and say/I've got something better to do/And love to me is when you walk out on that one more thing and say/Nothing will come between me and you." Something tells me that this is true. I just forget it far too often. It's learning to linger, to overstay a welcome at the risk of self discovery, to prop up my feet and to slow down, learn the fine art of being who I am. (more Sara Groves).
My first step in this year of taking advantage of every opportunity is to go on a senior year celebration trip to Italy for 12 days in April. Candace and I will be in Florence for Easter. We hope to drink in Italy's beauty- Venice, Rome, Bolzano -and have a few adventures together before we graduate and head into our careers. We may be out of money when we fly home but as everyone says, you are only young once, right?
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