Sat on a beach with your back to the sunset and watched the skin colors and shades of your favorite person’s face close your day?
Awaken next to a clear mountain stream to see a fat little robin dancing with a red squirrel while a disinterested, white-speckled fawn looks on?
Gone into a concert stoned (Hold on. It gets better) and before the show started, ducked into a bathroom stall to roll some doobies for your seats on the floor level (keep holding on) THEN getting incredibly stoned while alternating between rolling joints and smoking them and THEN passing out and waking up only after a fellow concertgoer (someone who actually saw the show) started knocking on the stall?
After the show had ended.
Twenty-three doobies in all.
Taken a powerful hallucinogenic at a concert with more than 250,000 people?
In a field?
At night?
Woken up, saw where your ideal golf temperature was on the map, and went to the nearest resort for a round?
Read a newspaper story, got all fired up about something, and actually said or did something about it?
Let a horse turn it loose on a beach at sunrise?
Told the whole truth at Sunday confession?
Lived among people who did not speak or understand English?
Invented a game that YOU and only YOU know all the rules on how to play?
Traversed multiple states before realizing you didn’t have a planned destination?
Scared the living shit out of yourself by going way too high in a skyscraper?
Nursed a sick animal back to health?
Gotten goaded into “really turning it loose” on Karaoke Night?
Laughed so hard you cried and gave yourself a tummy ache?
Tasted a foreign dish you can’t pronounce to find it extremely delicious?
Been moved to tears by a piece of music?
Felt the body heat of your soulmate as you cling to each other in a slow dance?
Grown a plant, shrub, or tree from seeds?
Eaten a meal made from food you grew and harvested yourself?
Drawn or painted a picture?
Composed a poem?
Written a song?
Taught a child (someone else’s child) a life skill?
Learned just for the sake of learning something new?
Offered help to someone you don’t know?
Laughed out loud (or cried unashamedly) at a movie?
Worked extremely hard and accomplished an individual (or team) goal?
Ran for any office and won (or lost) an election?
Stood up for someone smaller or weaker?
Attended a Greek wedding?
Entered a competition of any sort?
Said “yessir” or “yes ma’am” to someone younger than yourself?
Smelled a newborn baby?
Picked up a musical instrument?
Sang a song at the top of your lungs?
Made a bold prediction and have it come true?
Gambled and won on a long-shot bet?
Cheated at Solitaire?
Lied on a job application?
Made love in a Major League baseball game stadium during a game?
Been wronged but did not retaliate?
You have probably done many of these things and more, so you can see there’s still a long way to go!
Stay well.
