When I'm 84...

When I'm 84 I want to look back on my life and smile and think to myself " I've lived what I love." Sounds simple but not always easy to do. It's not always easy to take the road less traveled and follow a vision and passion and slowly mold and morph it into reality.

I was at an event recently and there was this 84 year old woman full of life and luster on the dance floor. There were young women surrounding her in awe as she twirled around the middle of the dance floor like a silver disco ball reflecting the light and energy she had gained from living a full life. You could just tell from her movements that she lived her life. Her smile lit up the dance floor and I was also amazed and saw into my future. I too want to live a full life.

What is living a full life? As I sit here and start to get really excited about my show and all of the planning involved, I realize that I am filled with passion right now. I am doing the things that I love to do and welcoming the struggles, strife and benefits that come along with doing them. Living a full life is letting passion in. Hmmm and not just passion for a significant other. There has to be balance...
Passion for even the simple things like family, music, career, friendships, creating, enjoying nature, meeting people and most of all helping keep the world a simple beautiful positive place for the generations to come.

I'm the type of person who has always been able to make most out of life when I was excited and deeply enthralled by the simple things. (Which I can blame my Sagittarius nature for) I mean could go out and ride my bike and be ridiculously excited about it to the point of jumping up and down...It's like this wave of energy surges through me when I get to do something I am passionate about. Not only do I want to do the thing I am passionate about but I want to inspire others to be passionate about what they do. And if they are not...then maybe it's not what they should be doing and it's time for some change. Even though at times...change can hurt.

I guess it's all a transfer of energy...negative energy and negative thoughts will only attract the same and positive energy will attract more positive energy. Has anyone ever noticed that when you are happy and positive you attract folks and situations that are positive forces and when you are miserable you attract some miserable company...I think if more people followed a passion, there would be less anger in the world, less wars.

So when I'm 84 I'm gonna look back and say I've lived a full life and did everything I wanted to do (or at least gave it a real stab of passion and drive) I can picture it now I'll be that little old lady with bad knees and silver hair still dancin to the music.

My need for speed..skydiving

Ok, I don't know where it came from but I feel that I needed to blog about this. It's my need... I've always had it... even as a child I can remember this intense need to live on the edge and always getting myself into things I was not supposed to. Even with the men I date. The normal nice guys were never my cup of tea but the bad boys who live on the edge and are a challenge always gave me that adrenaline rush that I crave. And now here I am about to jump out of a plane. Ok it's a tandem jump but it's still jumping out of a plane. he he I get all-amped thinking about it.

I guess it's a combination of wanting to see the earth from a different perspective and wanting to experience that adrenaline rush and excitement. I can almost feel the endorphins and rushing throughout my body now. I convinced my big sister to come with me this Friday. We talked about going in August but I impulsively booked my flight (fall) this Friday and she is coming! She thinks there is a gene for this sort of thing...needing adventure, needing to explore...What ever it is I have it and need it. I guess I better get my fix before I decide to have children lol.

So I booked my Jump at the Long island diving center. What fun!

http://www.longislandskydiving.com/

It's a bit expensive but worth it for the thrill I will get. I'll let you know how it goes.