Day 306. Rush, rush, rush

   I always tell myself I hate rushing. And even so, I don't know why but I keep doing it. Rush in to get dressed, catch the bus, get somewhere. Every.single.time. Today I ran after two buses. It was awful and I told myself I should stop doing it. What's the worst that could happen? Take the next bus? 

   Why are we rushing in life? Why do we want things asap? Why can't we just be relaxed about everything and know that in the end we will get where we want anyhow? It would spare us of so much energy loss. 

   In my case I'm thinking that I want to get home sooner or that someone might be waiting for me and they might get cranky if I don't make it on time, but I just have to accept that I will eventually get home anyway and if I happen to be late, true friends understand that missing a bus isn't the end of the world:) 

   So let's cut the rushing. It's not good for us. Sooner or later we need to start prioritizing and stop thinking that we HAVE to do something asap and replace that with "we'd like to do it, but if it doesn't happen, it's still ok." And just chillax. God, how much I want that. So I'm going to start doing it in 3... 2... 1...

Day 96. Life lessons

 

   Today I remembered a life lesson my dad taught me: "Never run after something or someone who's not waiting for you." ... basically buses and men. 

   I was seconds away from the bus I had to take and I let it go remembering what my dad said. "Another one will come", I told myself and a minute later it did:) So, I learned I have to take my time and enjoy the ride instead of rushing to get somewhere only to get bored later on. 

Day 53. Eternal youth

   I wanted to have a different title today, namely "Rain rain go away come around another day" since it's definitely suitable for this weather, but something more important happened today. 

   While reading on bus I was approached by two old men who came to sit by me. They first said they liked I was using my time wisely by reading on the bus and then, slowly we started to talk about life, people and places:) I've always admired old people and these two old men of 85 and 82 were pretty amazing. 

   The thing that remained in my mind was their happy faces and them being enthusiastic, positive and smiling and not complaining about their life (like old people ususally do). And they were coming from a funeral!:) I told you they were amazing. 

  One of them said the key to achieve that age is having positive thoughts, a close relationship with God and physical exercises. 

What can you want more than reach that age and have THAT attitude? 

They're my role models now:)

Day 48. A few pages a day

   ... keep boredom away:) No matter where I go, I always keep a book in my bag. You never know when you'll end up having to wait. And on top of it, I have a pretty long way towards work so guess what I am doing every morning on the bus:) 

   One one hand there are the people who wonder why I'm doing it when you could simply sit and chill until you reach your destination but on the other side there are the peek-ers:) They are so curious what you're reading that they turn their head to the left or to the right to read the title. I smiled in my mind at the thought of their reaction to the title of my last book: "I'll kill myself some other time" :)) I guess that sounded interesting enough:) 

    Today, while waiting to get checked by my physician, I read. I knew I was going to have to wait so I smiled at the thought of reading (it helps if you really like the book, otherwise it's a drag). You could see the difference. People around me were getting nervous and were starting to complain about having to wait for so long. Right then I felt blessed. I had a book with me. Something to save me from boredom. Something to make me dream wild and forget about everything else:)

Day 41. Everything seems brighter...

   ... when you're fit as a fiddle again after some days of taking pills and staying in bed!:) That's how I felt today after getting off the bus:) I have to be honest, the sun was promising to shine so we got on the same page quickly, I guess:) Nevertheless, even the little details that I didn't pay attention to before were now beautiful and I felt so lucky to be able to be back on track so shortly:) Yaaay, a new day of working with the kids:D (Oh, btw, a girl came to me today and hugged me and told me she loved me. See? THAT'S why I want to work with them every single day!:) )

    So my day was awesome and I could feel it was going to be like that since I opened my book on the bus and I had a big hunger for reading again. Now that was a good sign! And then the desire to take photos, dance and eat followed quickly:) 

   Again, when there's a will there's a way:)

Day 35. About scents and flavours

   Seems like it rained last night. This morning, after getting off the bus towards work I was at first sad by the grey vail that fell over the city because of the clouds that were still sticking around, but then, as I was walking, I inhaled that special scent that can be felt after rain. That special scent that you HAVE to love:) 

   I immediately thought about how much I'd love to be able to preserve scents and even flavours I liked during my lifetime and put them in small, beautiful bottles and then fill a big chest with them and open one or two during hard times. Man, how would that change my mood in an instance:) Or even better, link a story to every bottle and then tell the stories to my children and grandchildren:) I'd love that very much. 

   So, here's the next best thing: a wannabe pond:P Wouldn't you love to preserve special scents as well? Scents that have a story behind are the best scents ever:)

Day 25. Meet Autumn!

   This morning the bus driver didn't stop in my usual station. I don't know why. It just went by it. At first I wanted to go tell him I need to get off but then I told myself "everything happens for a reason". And so it did. I enjoyed a new path to my workplace (I got bored of the usual one anyway) and I met Autumn. She was so beautiful and eerie!:) I loved her sheer yellow earrings and her long veil all across the sidewalk. All was very lady like. In the end, she made me want to be like her, so... tomorrow I'm wearing a skirt!:)