A short while ago I read Reya`s list of things she still wants to do "before kicking the bucket", haha, what a nice expression. It sounds so energetic. Kicking at my bucket when I think I`ve had enough. Spilling the last dreams, but being content with what I had in my life bucket. A great picture.
Makes me think of Tessa`s favourite saying (I quote from memory): " Life is not meant to be a journey to the grave where we should arrive in a well-preserved body, but rather a joyous trip, finally ending when we skid in sideways, totally worn-out and yelling, Hell`s Teeth, what a RIDE!"
Tessa, our blog pal, lived like this, and she died a year ago, but I still think a lot of her. The images of her paintings and the landscapes she saw and shared with us, they stay with me.
Life should be joy and fun and laughter in the presence of horror and pain. We cannot eliminate it, the pain, or the "badness", even in each of us, we are made that way, selfish and mean and envious, but we are ALSO good and loving and generous. There is a balance in everything, somehow, and it helps to accept the way life just is.
We can only choose the way we want to look at it. And my credo is: Life IS this joyous trip that I want to enjoy while I´m here.
A German picture of speech is, that when you are really jumping with joy and glee, you get "out of your cottage" (aus dem Häuschen sein). I like that idea, too. That when you are really happy and overjoyed, you cannot stay inside your little house, but must run outside and spread out your arms and sing and dance.
Picture yourself doing that!
Running outside, shouting yahooooo, hopping around on a flower meadow, looking at the white clouds, breathing fresh air! Feeling that life is GOOD.
Doesn`t even that picture make you smile?
So, instead of putting more dreams into my bucket (I still have some leftovers, but really a LOT have come true), I am filling yours and my buckets with images like these:
Run "out of your little house", feel the grass underneath your bare feet, jump and sing and dance, feel your heart widen, and breathe deeply.
Do this every morning, imagine yourself this way. I`ll try to do it.
What a year it will be!
Al dente!
Vor einer Stunde
8 Kommentare:
Thank you for your great comment on my blog Angela. Happy New Year to you and yes, I agree, this year, we must go out every morning, enjoy the moment, and take plenty, plenty of fresh air !
Francisca
www.franciscamatteoli.com/blog/
Gracias, Francisca, mi amiga nueva,
and may your new year be blessed, too. I can`t wait to read your new book, about Wyoming and all.
You and all others you come here, please go over to Friko`s World and read her poem to herself. It´s exactly what I mean but cannot say so well.
The other day I read somewhere: "the journey is the destination"
I liked that (and this post)
have you seen the movie geli? we loved it!
i've never really had a list, but then i've been lucky like you and seen so many dreams realized. i love the idea you have, to welcome joy, in all those ways you said. i think of you dear geli, every time i jump around now, with a big smile on my face!
happy twenty twelve!
The thinking now in those circles of people who make decisions is that walking helps depression... who knew!!!!! It took them a long time to find that out. We could have just asked you instead Geli, cause you are a person who doesn't just have a glass half full you have a bucket.Your joy in life is so infectious. I'd like to bottle it and give it out to all my clients, as they don't always believe me when I tell them. And a dose of fresh ozone Geli air would surely help.
Janet, how true. If you don`t enjoy the journey, why bother leaving at all. It is the stopping at small places, smelling at unknown flowers, listening to people`s conversations in foreign lingo, the new stars and frgrant air which makes the trip worth while. That`s why I don`t like flying to places! Walking would be much better. Last night on TV I watched a report of a man who went by bicycle to Kazachstan - and did he see something!
Lori, how I would love to jump around with you on your California Hills! And then jump into the ocean and look for sea glass. And then accompany you to your knitting class. I`d even consider flying just to do that! If it will ever happen?
Mandy, those stupid folks - you should lend out Trix to them and take them on guided tours through your beautiful landscape, not under eight miles each walk. I bet their decisions would come out oh so differently!
You are right, that would be a great business idea, bottling Joy of Life and selling it, haha!
Maybe we should set up a video conference together and invite all those depressed people (AFTER their walk, then they`ll listen, from exhaustion).
Thank you for your sweet words, dear. You are doing a lot for those people already!
I still think about Tess too. Xx oo
i will make a new year's resolution right here and now - to 'jump out of my cottage' much more often in 2012!!
thank you geli, for bringing wisdom and joy into my life with your friendship. i am so grateful♡
wishing you and hans (and paco!) all the best for a beautiful new year!!
xoxo
amanda
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