thoughts on life
I'm tasting all that's possible.
I try to eat the food I need, and do the things I should.
But life's so short, my friend, I hate missing out on something good.
This year I realized how old I was. I haven't been this old before.
So, before I die, I've got to try those things that for years I had ignored.
I haven't smelled all the flowers yet. There are too many books I haven't read.
There's more fudge sundaes to wolf down and kites to be flown overhead.
There are many malls I haven't shopped. I've not laughed at all the jokes.
I've missed a lot of Broadway hits and potato chips and cokes.
I want to wade again in water and feel ocean spray on my face.
I want to sit in a country church once more and thank God for His grace.
I want peanut butter every day spread on my morning toast.
I want UN-timed long distance calls to the folks I love the most.
I haven't cried at all the movies yet, or walked in the morning rain.
I need to feel wind in my hair. I want to fall in love again.
So, if I choose to have dessert, instead of having dinner,
then should I die before night fall, I'd say I died a winner,
because I missed out on nothing.
I filled my heart's desire.
I had that final chocolate mousse before my life expired.
As angry as I am at the world right now, I have remembered that there are some very wonderful things in it that I have been able to experience: watching my roommate re-pop popcorn and getting the biggest kick out of it, finding old friends on facebook, talking to my mom everyday and having those infrequent but always interesting talks with my sister, new baby cousins, the ability to get a good education, wonderful friends and people who care, and a man in my life who was worth the wait.
I guess shitty things in life happen for a reason.
I try to eat the food I need, and do the things I should.
But life's so short, my friend, I hate missing out on something good.
This year I realized how old I was. I haven't been this old before.
So, before I die, I've got to try those things that for years I had ignored.
I haven't smelled all the flowers yet. There are too many books I haven't read.
There's more fudge sundaes to wolf down and kites to be flown overhead.
There are many malls I haven't shopped. I've not laughed at all the jokes.
I've missed a lot of Broadway hits and potato chips and cokes.
I want to wade again in water and feel ocean spray on my face.
I want to sit in a country church once more and thank God for His grace.
I want peanut butter every day spread on my morning toast.
I want UN-timed long distance calls to the folks I love the most.
I haven't cried at all the movies yet, or walked in the morning rain.
I need to feel wind in my hair. I want to fall in love again.
So, if I choose to have dessert, instead of having dinner,
then should I die before night fall, I'd say I died a winner,
because I missed out on nothing.
I filled my heart's desire.
I had that final chocolate mousse before my life expired.
As angry as I am at the world right now, I have remembered that there are some very wonderful things in it that I have been able to experience: watching my roommate re-pop popcorn and getting the biggest kick out of it, finding old friends on facebook, talking to my mom everyday and having those infrequent but always interesting talks with my sister, new baby cousins, the ability to get a good education, wonderful friends and people who care, and a man in my life who was worth the wait.
I guess shitty things in life happen for a reason.