The Place I've Always Lived...

As I drove home from seeing Twilight, yet again tonight. I was driving east on 300 south as you come to 1100 east on here you begin to acend up a hill. When you reach the crest of the hill just before 1300 east you see Pioneer Memorial Theater, and it was night time so it was all lit up. It was absolutely breath taking. I don't think I've ever driven up that was and seen Pioneer Memorial in such a light in all my 19 years of living in the same place. I started to think remembering something I had read not too long ago in a letter, about how everyone looks at the world in a different perspective. You see the world in a completely different light then I do. A lawyer sees the world in a different light then a doctor or a janitor or a mill worker. For instance I have worked at a photography studio for the past year and a half. So as I reached the crest of the hill I wanted to to take a photograph, where as someone else may have done the exact same thing tonight and thought nothing of it.

But the part I hated about it was how much I thought in my head of what I would change to this picture. As soon as I saw this view in my mind I snapped a picture in my head. Then I took out the green street light, telling me I could cross. Then I darkened the sky and maybe put a few more stars in. I brightened the lights on the building and darkened the others surrounding it. Until I had my "perfect picture". Since when do we have to change everything to make it perfect? And why does everything have to be perfect? Life changes everyday, doesn't it? And when it does, aren't those usually the best stories? A road trip gone bad, an sparratic trip to Lake Powell, Costa Rica on a whim, tripping as you jump onto the field after a big win, who is to say these aren't the best moments? The best learning experiences? If everything is always picture perfect then what will we ever have to learn? Or fight for?

A Retrospective Perspective

My friend Jordan and I love to go to Barnes and Noble and grab a few books sit, relax, get away from the world and read. Share what we read and just talk. It is so much fun!! I love going with her! Last week when we went I found a book called, "Live What You Love: notes from an unusual life". I very much want an unusual life. I always talk about how much I want to go and tour around Europe and have all these crazy stories to tell and almost die 5 times in the Alps, or on a train ride from Vienna to Rome. Many people find this odd, especially the fact that I want to almost die 5 times, but what can I say? I want an exciting life. I often times try to make my day exciting by doing random and spontaneous things. But it still seems to not be spontaneous enough. I want to go to "Costa Rica on a whim" haha Jordan, you know what I'm talking about! Anyways, that is a lot of rambling, back to the book. The beginning of this book what they call, "A Retrospective Perspective" very much inspired me and I went out this week an actually bought the book. Anyways...it has made me start to think a lot about my life and what exactly I want to do with it! I'm still figuring it all out, but I thought I would share with all of you this "Retrospective Perspective" Have an unusual day!!! :-) 

"We're all very, very busy. We have e-mails to answer, planes to catch, and we're constantly reshuffling schedules to squeeze in new meetings, each more important, more urgent than the last. But every now and then, we get a signal; life should be more satisfying. 

Have you ever found yourself counting up the days to the weekend-and it was only Monday?

You start searching for daily pleasures to reward yourself for just getting through another day; ice cream, shopping, or going out for dinner. Some people even believe that a two week vacation once a year is enough to keep them feeling happy and fulfilled. 

Is it right that we spend so much time planning our next escape? 

When we were small, we blew out the candles on our birthday cake believing that all our hopes and dreams would become real. And when Jiminy Cricket urged us to wish upon a star, we all tried it, at least once. So when exactly did you stop wishing? When did you start doing the things that you had to do instead of the things you wanted to do?

When did your dreams get buried under the responsibilities of adulthood? 

Now you sense that something needs to change, but you're too busy to stop and think about what it is. You long for those forgotten times when each days accomplishments filled you with joy and excitement, when you embraced life with energy and enthusiasm. 

When there were a million special days. 

The first day of school, the night before your fifth birthday, summer vacation, your first kiss...all of these things were momentous achievements that made you feel almost giddy inside.

But now you sometimes feel as if you're stuck in a big rut and, as the years go by, the rut keeps getting deeper and deeper. You sense loss, understanding you were meant to do more. 

your dreams feel so far away and always seem to be just out of reach. 

But there silly dreams, you tell yourself. Get real. After all, you have a job; you're earning a living. You have responsibilities. You can't go off chasing crazy dreams.

Besides, it's scary to think about going out on a limb. 

But the dreams just won't go away and they keep popping up. If only dreams came with a guarantee. Then you'd be as secure as you are now. Your job is secure, right?

Wouldn't it be awful to live your whole life and then say, "Wait! I need another chance. I just wanted to try this one thing." 

Remember how scared you were to take the training wheels off your bike? Or how much courage it took for that first kiss? Nothing stopped you then. 

So what's stopping you now?"

                           -Live What You Love: notes from an unusual life

                                  By the Blanchards

Four Essential Traveling Phrases

        So I am still working on my AMAZING next blog post. But I thought I would give you a little teaser. (although this has nothing to do with my next post. Really it is just to make Cara happy! ;-) love ya!) 

       When making a blog I decided to try and connect it all with a theme. Kind of like a yearbook, odd I know. Although I haven't completely decided on a "theme" yet, or if I will even be able to keep the theme throughout the blog. The one I am mostly considering is something to do with traveling. So in hopes to gather more ideas to be able to connect traveling in with everything, I "googled" it. (Funny how we've made a website a verb.) 

       In my search I found what they called "Four Essential Traveling Phrases". Four phrases that they have in various languages on the site that they believe are essential to traveling. I found it quite amusing and decided to share it with you. 

Here they are: 

               1. Where is my room?

                     --Quite helpful

               2. Where is the beach?

                     --Another I thought was quite useful

               3. Where is the Bar?

                     --Perhaps not as useful for me

               4. Don't touch me there?

                     --This one I thought was extremely funny! I was laughing for a long time. But the more I thought about it the more I realized how helpful this one actually is. So there it is! 

Also here are a VERY few places I would like to travel to someday and the "Four Essential Traveling Phrases" in that language. :-) Happy Travels!

The Enchanting Greece...

 

The exotic Seychelles

This is a place I want to go because of my brother. I don't actually know what language they speak. So I can't give you your essentials on this one. Sorry!

              AND...The Wonderful and ever waiting (very patiently I might add) Italy....

                                                 1. Dov'e la mia camera?

                                                 2. Dov'e la spiaggia?

                                                 3. Dov'e il bar?

                                                 4. Non toccarmi la!

                                            

Entering the World of Blogging...

So I have this new blog, and I honestly have NO idea what to write on it! All in all my life is pretty boring, except my secret life that I can't expose people to, particularly not on the internet for the whole WORLD to read. So my question for you all is, what do I blog about? I could blog about all my random thoughts, but honestly, NOBODY wants to read those. So I am at a loss, I do have some fun pictures I took the other night that I really enjoy that I will share with you all when I get home...until then...

Off to Mead!

Well everyone, I am officially a blogger! How exciting huh? I'm off to Lake Mead tomorrow!!! I am SO excited! It is going to be a lot of fun! There will be plenty of pictures to look at when I get back I'm sure! Have a good week wherever you may be and I'll miss you all out on the sunny warm lake! I'll be sure to get a run or two in for you all!