No Regrets!

Just thought I would share with you what mood I'm in right now! :) I'm facing some very important decisions in my life right now, decisions that will affect the rest of my life, and I just needed to stop and think. And here's what I decided:

Don't live life with regrets. 

Sometimes we cannot avoid it, but you only live once, why would you want to look back 10, 20 maybe even 50 years from now and think, "why didn't I do that?" or "Why didn't I say that?"

Even if you believe in re-incarnation, THIS life you live only once! So hold your head up high and live life like there is no tomorrow.

One of my all-time favorite authors said, "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." - Rudyard Kipling.

No regrets! LIVE, LEARN & LOVE with all your heart! 

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - John Steinbeck

~ Good Morning World ~

 Good Morning!

Yes, it's Monday again. Sigh! Had a restless night with very little sleep once again. Putting all that aside, it's a new week and we're all alive! So enjoy this day, for it's a new day and a new beginning.

I had a great weekend. Finally traveled further than 20 miles outside my town. Did a little shopping and dinner with some friends.

Enjoyed some "me and the couch" time as well. :) I finally watched "Django Unchained" and "Silver Linings Playbook" over this weekend. I loved them both for their equal, but entirely different weirdness.
Quentin Tarrantino's strange humor kept the seriousness and brutality of the movie balanced, though highlighting the cruelties and injustice of slavery facing the African Americans in the 19th century. And of course, like most movies, one of my favorite characters or most favorite character takes a bullet! No, not Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, but Christoph Waltz's character, Dr. King Shultz. He's character kept me guessing what he would do or say, and I loved him.
Jennifer Lawrence was simply amazing! Bradley Cooper did a pretty good job as well, but she definitely deserved that Oscar for her performance. It felt like you were watching someone's life and not a movie. A lot of movies today feel like a movie and don't have that this is 'real' feeling. This movie, the actors, the camera, all made you feel like you were an invisible third person in the room, watching real life unfold. We all have our own eccentricities and things that make us tick! This movie handles the subject of 'mental illnesses' subtly and beautifully. (For my preferred review/critic site visit Rotten Tomatoes for the above movies: Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook)

I think we can all take something away from these two movies, appreciate what you have, because you're alive and you have been given the opportunity to do what makes you happy - make the most of it! Life IS a privilege, live it, love it!

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius *

Hanging on!

I recently saw the trailer for "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," and remembered one of my favorite quotes. Dev Patel's character calmly lets everyone know, "In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end," so there is absolutely no need to worry. The quote is by Brazilian writer, Paolo Coelho known for his most well-known novels The Pilgrimage.and The Alchemist.  
I don't know why, but I have a a profound fascination for this quote. It keeps me hopeful that the future may yet be bright and I thought I would share it with you. However bleak and hopeless life may seem at present, remember, there is only so far you can fall. When you reach the bottom, there is only one way to go...UP! So keep that little head on your shoulders, for no one knows what tomorrow may bring. You do not need to believe in a higher power to have faith and to have hope, look inside yourself. There is something divine in all of us, and I believe that is where God resides - in our hearts! 

Hang in there, for if it's not okay, then it's not the end. For, "In the end, everything will be okay!"

I took this photograph while admiring the graffiti at Table Rock in Boise, ID. He's an inspiring little tree, hanging on to life :)