comin home

what's great about leavin home to live somewhere else is that you can appreciate home more than before. i've taken advantage of many of the things that i've had while living at home, but now that i'm all the way across the nation, i am glad to be coming home.

i'd see people around me all the time in the small town i am currently residing in and i wonder how they got to this random place in the middle of no where. when i first visited this little town i thought "who would ever want to be stuck here?!" i figure these people must have a reason. and they probably do. today i took a shuttle to the airport and there was a driver and a guy "in training." they were two of the most interesting guys i've encountered on a shuttle. the driver was in his 70s and was talking about his life in this little town. as we talked the two both seemed to have had a nice fulfilling life and just ended up back in this town because it's been their home their whole lives. but why did they choose this shuttle job this late in life? why did the younger man in training choose this job in the middle of his life?

i figure the answer is that: we all have our own paths and opportunities come our way at different times. we live life when it's meant to be lived and the things that happen to us in our lives can change the course of our lives. those who make the best of this journey are those who know how to enjoy life and are the most interesting to meet.

i hope to be one of these people. i'd like to enjoy everything i do even though it might not be that great at the time. life is an adventure. live it!

~*Live.Laugh.Love*~

Sunny Days

Today is such a beautiful sunny day! I wish i could be outside enjoying it! Instead, i have to write these papers. But i do have the windows open with the sun flooding the room. There's something about the sun that i only realized when i came to the east coast... it does something to you. it makes you feel better and happier. Maybe i got too much of it at home and that's why i didnt appreciate it as much, but not i realize the affect it has, not only on me, but on everyone around me.

You Are My Sunshine.

Do u ever pass by someone while walking to class or anywhere and they are smiling? not just any smile, but one of those smiles where it seems like they just kissed someone they love, or where the smile is a remanence of something very funny, or maybe it's a smile of just being totally and utterly happy... Well those are the smiles i live for. Whenever i see someone smile so incandescently happy, i can't help but to smile and wonder what they're smiling about. =]

A Smile Is Contagious. Pass It On.

~*Live. Laugh. Love*~