What am I waiting for?

"Always we hope

Someone else has the answer,

Some other place it will be better,

Some other time

It will all turn out.

This is it.

No one else has the answer.

No other place will be better,

And it has already turned out."

-Lao Tzu

As mentioned in my last blog, I've been blahhh lately and feeling un-alive. But on my way to Kerrville with Cole on Monday, I was reading from a good book called "The Happiness Makeover" by M.J. Ryan and I found a passage that was interesting to me and kinda woke me up... here it is:

"Recently I read All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten for the first time. In it, Robert Fulghum tells a story I absolutely love. When he was a minister, he was always flabbergasted when someone from his flock would come for spiritual counseling saying, 'The doctors told me I have only a limited time to live.' Fulghum confesses that he always wanted to shout, 'What?? You didn't know? You had to pay a doctor to tell you--at your age?? Where were you the week in kindergarten when you got the little cup with the cotton and water and seed? Life happened-- remember? A plant grew up and the roots grew down. A miracle. And then a few days later the plant was dead...The idea was for us to have the whole picture right from the beginning. Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.'

This is it--your one and only short life. How shall you live so that you enjoy it absolutely as much as possible?"

This passage made me think. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll be posting about my Spring Break next time, but wanted to share this with you because I think its very interesting. Just so you know, I appreciate all the comments that I get. However, I can't figure out how to write back to them in the comments section... should be easy, but somehow it's not letting me write... If someone wants to tell me how I'd appreciate it :)