All You Need is Love...

Let’s face it. We live it every day. We can try to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist. But honestly… it surrounds us whether we want to admit it or not. Life. Death. Do you know if you will be here on earth tomorrow? And let’s say tomorrow for you didn’t exist, all the while you stood looking down at the world you once knew. Would you wish you had lived that last day differently? The raw truth…. We are not immortal and each of us will have our last breath.


So in this very moment, you are obviously reading my thoughts on this blog online. But before this, what were you doing? Were you with your family? Playing with your children? Spending time with a loved one? Chasing your dreams? Were you camping? Were you pouring a drink? Did you just finish shooing your kids away? Did you just walk away from hurting someone else? Were you sitting on the couch, watching tv alone wishing you could have something wonderful but for some reason you feel it’s not possible for you?

This world has just as much evil as it has good. While someone just saved a child’s life and is embracing him/her… sadly, someone in the world doesn’t see the value in life and just took a child’s life. This makes me want to cry when I think of the reality of it all. For all the good in this world, the opposite is also happening at the very same time…. Somewhere, right now.

So what AM I doing right now? If I looked over my life tomorrow from above, would I wish I had done things different? It may be crazy, but I truly live each day as if it’s my last. This very moment in my life, my son is playing with friends outside. I had a work out video going and in-between sweating up a storm, I’d pause the video and write a few sentences then go back to my work out which I just finished. The song “The Head on the Door” by The Cure was playing and now a song by Shaggy just came on that reminds me of a close friend in Seattle that I miss so much who I will see in a month. Earlier, I was cleaning. This morning, I was sleeping in. And last night, I had close friends over to my home. Friends I consider family. So much love filled my home last night and I witnessed a special moment as I snuck a peek in the kitchen to see one of my close friends and her husband dancing. It warmed my heart. In the near future, I will be with my family back home for a visit. The thing is… if I left this world before it happened. In their hearts… they know I would have been there. And right now, I’m smiling… I wouldn’t change a thing.

There is a young girl I mentor that I meet with every week. One week I saw her and during our walk… she said to me, “I may be dead next week and then I wouldn't be able to go”. Not her words exactly but it was enough to make me tilt my head sideways and look at her quizzically. I told her, don’t say that because you know it’s not true. And her reply was, you don’t know. It could really happen. What’s so wild, is that she is right. At first, I was a little taken back and wasn’t sure how to respond. I knew it was her imagination at work and let me tell you this kid is super smart. She changes my world every time I see her. After she said that, I smiled at her and said, you know what???? You should be a writer! Your imagination is sooo amazing and creative. And in that moment, I embraced who she was even more than I already had. We continued walking down the wooden path through the trees… and with our minds, we turned the bird sanctuary into a forest full of lions, hyenas and angry hippos hiding in the trees. We found a secret path that led to an alien creek where it was centuries old so we named the hideaway. And our journey through her mind continued till we left the park and I took her home. We made notes that the next time we would paint our nails in the park. And on our three month anniversary of us meeting eachother, we would make a snowman out of ice-cream. I sooooooooooo can’t wait!



And to conclude, here is one of my favorite quotes. This one from James Dean (love love love him!!!!)

• Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean



As the song starts playing on my itunes by the Beatles “All you need is love” (seriously, no joke)