What Is A Good Life ?
A good life is having enough money to take care of your family or the people you love and a little more to prepare for the what ifs of life and to enjoy the extras - family trips, vacations, personal enrichment experiences, etc. A good life is waking up, making breakfast for the kids (or sig oth) taking them to school or work, when you will have time to talk and catch up in the car ride over. You get to focus on the things that really matter in life - relationships with the people and things you love and the experiences and memories that make life worth living.
Just ask your self this question and you will know what I mean.
When you woke up this morning - what were you looking forward to doing today ? What is it about the upcoming week that has you excited about or interested in - being alive ? For myself, my cat Crash greets me every morning by meowing outside the bedroom door until I come out, feed him and play a quick game of fishing pole before making coffee and breakfast. If I don't come out fast enough, he starts throwing himself at the door in desperation until I do.
I also look forward to snuggling the warm girl in my bed for another ten minutes before starting the day. On Sundays - I enjoy my painting class, where some of the projects I'm working on are less than horrible, which gives me hope I could get decent at it one day. I enjoy taking pictures of beautiful sunsets, sparkling beaches, happy people, good times and happy pets. I enjoy collecting the business cards of barber shops where I get horrible, bad or just unflattering haircuts. I am still looking for that magical barber who will know how to cut MY hair.
I enjoy stealing the good pens from my doctors offices, since they have names of pharmaceuticals on the side and every writer knows that RX reps have the best pens to give out. They're usually clickie pens, they write smoothly and they fit nicely into the hand of the user/ klepto. Some of them are even blue, which is good, because I hate when the only pens I have are black ink. It is so ordinary and boring to see the black ink on the white page. Blue ink always looks much nicer to me.
I like that I haven't had a drink of alcohol since June 17, 2009, and now spend that energy I wasted in the bar on better things like painting, writing and finding good music on the Internet. I am learning a lot about myself by going to 12 step meetings and being with those who are also muddling through life, trying to maintain serenity while living through it and figuring it out as each day comes to us. I don't have all the answers yer, but I have many more and am more peaceful than when I was walking around in a haze created by Fat Tire, Taurino, Dos Equis Amber, 8th Street Ale, Gin and Tonics or Kamikazes. So these are the things I am thinking about and working on as of today. Stay tuned and look at the past posts if you want to see what I was writing about when I was still drinking heavily. Later, Gator.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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