Self Enjoyment

Last Sunday was maybe one of the best days I've had in a long time... i finally got my bike back and have been wanting to ride around NEvada to see some of the town and to check out a few of the trails they have... well i didn't do much trail riding but i did end up riding like 5 miles on gravel... lol! It was the most fun i've had by myself in a while... i LOVE the corn fields and the smell of iowa summers. While i was riding it started pouring rain and it was just a perfect moment of big giant drops hitting my skin and the ground around me. I also was singing to my Ipod at the top of my lungs... :) (since i was out in the middle of nowhere!) thats just how i roll i guess.. haha. When i made it home after 11 miles of riding i was already wet from both sweat and rain so i decided to dance and play in the rain for awhile. :D It was a glorious moment!

I just love that sense of childhood enjoyments that you can bring to your current adult life and not be too ridiculous about, well i would probably do them anyway.. lol, but its just fun to reminisce.


'Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will leak away your innate contentment. '

- passage from EAT PRAY LOVE.

Ahhhh... Simplicity

So this past weekend I took an entire day to just do NOTHING! I rented 4 movies from the redbox and layed on the couch all day and just watched movies and relaxed.. It was GREAT!!!



One of the movies that i watched was called Beastly... i really wanted to watch this movie not only because it looked like a chick flick but it just seemed like it had a good plot. Little did i know, i actually learned a lot from this movie! It kind of made me look at simplicity from a new perspective... Love is not about making someone fall in love with you.. its about being yourself and for the other person to understand and love you for you! I love how "Hunter" had to find things about her on the inside in order to make her feel loved because he couldn't use physical attraction as his means of getting her to fall in love with him.. he had to be creative in truly understanding her from the inside out.

I also think that is very important for all of us to realize that love is a very fragile thing, we often get so caught up in the joys and excitments of the big picture that we forget to just stop and enjoy the moment and the little things!


Don't get me wrong I'm definately NOT perfect by any means... this has just been something thats been on my mind lately to really try and understand the meaning of true love and what it takes to be in a relationship.. its NOT easy!!! You have to remember to be simple and to not take things for granted but to just enjoy the presence of that person in your life.

No Such Thing by John Mayer

LYRICS
"welcome to the real world"
she said to me condescendingly
"take a seat, take your life
plot it out in black and white"

well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
and the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
is still hiding up my sleeve

they love to tell you "stay inside the lines"
but something's better on the other side

I want to run through the halls of my high school
I want to scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
just a lie you've got to rise above

so the good boys and girls take the so-called right track
faded white hats grabbing credits, maybe transfers
they read all the books but they can't find the answers
all of our parents, they're getting older
I wonder if they've wished for anything better
while in their memories, tiny tragedies

they love to tell you "stay inside the lines"
but something's better on the other side

I want to run through the halls of my high school
I want to scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
just a lie you've got to rise above

I am invincible
I am invincible
I am invincible
as long as I'm alive

I want to run through the halls of my high school
I want to scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
just a lie you've got to rise above

I just can't wait for my ten year reunion
I'm gonna bust down the double doors
and when I stand on these tables before you
you will know what all this time was for


For some reason this song caught my attention today when i heard it on the radio...It kinda made me wanna be free and do something crazy.. lol.(not too crazy though. :)) It just kinda makes you feel good about life (at least it did for me.)

When Life Gives you Lemons.....

You learn to dance in the rain!... Easier said then done i think. I'm one to always try and see things on the brighter side of life.. no matter how much someone hurts you or that really bad thing happened to you, you just gotta push through to make the most outta life. If things are meant to be they will come together!

As described in one of my previous posts, i have had an issue with negativity and trying to figure out what causes that because i'm not that person, i'm a smiley person who loves life! I just get SO excited about living my life and when good things happen I run at them with full force and i forget that sometimes you can't rush things.. you gotta take it slow and enjoy the scenery on the way! :)

I'm just starting to figure out the right balance in my life and where i should be as an individual. I know what calms me down when i need to relax and take a break from the craziness of life..(exercise) :)... and i've also started art journaling which is an amazing sort of therapy to get whats on your mind out on paper, it releases something amazing! Sometimes you just gotta push through the hard stuff to get to the GREAT stuff! You never know what you have till its gone... So enjoy your life for what it is!


"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth."

Just gotta keep my head up and enjoy the things i've got!

Smile!

It's so funny how a simple smile can brighten your day! It's easy to get caught up in a bad day especially when things just seem to not go well, but for me if i just smile.. even if its fake at first it becomes a real smile. Also when others are happy and smile at you it just makes my heart feel good! :) Smiles are GREAT!

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
-Tom Wilson

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss