Happy V.D.
I sincerely hope all the lovers out there are, well, loving.
I’m still pretty lame (in a physical sense, mind you) so I won’t be doing any dancing this evening. I think I’ll sit with a glass of port and listen to Sinatra. I think it will make for a perfect evening. When you’ve loved and lost, like Frank has, you know what life’s about. And now…
You’re driving down the road and suddenly 3 of your car wheels fall off. Bummer right? So you reach into the glove box for the cell phone, only to find your girlfriend’s vibrator instead (and why does she need one, slacker?). Now what?
I’ll tell you what. This is one of those wonderfully defining moments, custom fitted to your own personal needs. Your own private lesson, hand delivered on a silver platter. It was scripted this way. So enjoy it. All bad experiences, piled one upon another, are a kind of initiation. It’s the forging of the steel that is you.
So, get moving and fix that car. It’s your initiation after all; you don’t wanna be late.
I am so, so, so working on fixing me. And it feels awesome. I think nothing that happens to us is wasted, we have trials and we can give up and be failures, or we can reinvent ourselves. “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.”
Bad stuff happens all the time, and I’ve found that I can’t wait until it’s all over, because it never will be—unless I do something about it. You do provide food for thought…
I’ve also stopped living for “someday”. You know. It’s always, “when I have enough money, THEN I’ll …” Or “When I have free time, THEN I’ll…”. There IS no someday, because it never shows up. Today is IT.
And Miss Elizabeth, I think you are pretty awesome anyway. Kiss the doggies.
Yeah, today might not be perfect, but… I think we have the power within us to make it amazing.
The doggies have been delightful for me today, so I’ll give them a kiss, but they might not have any idea what I’m talking about when I say it’s from you. Honestly, I suspect they’re confused by most of what I say. They just pretend to understand.
And I think you’re pretty awesome, too. Just in case you were wondering.