Reply #72: I learned my lesson.....

[AnneD]

There have been times when I have done things or seen things and thought to my self-make this moment last because it doesn't get better than this.

And when things get tough-I remember my happy thoughts- the times when I felt true bliss. Everyone should reflect on the times that made them the most content. It is like an emotional first aid kit.

Best time-working at the bookstore.

Best moments:jumping off a rope swing into the river and making it to the middle of the creek, making sleds out of cardboard boxes and going down an embankment for hours-then laying in the grass looking at the clouds in pure exhaustion and joy, staying up all night with a German astrophysicist looking at the stars and talking philosophy and the cosmos, being on a peak in Alaska and watching the weather below and knowing how God sees thing, holding my daughter in my arms for the first time, watching Secretariat come from back to win, watching Michael Jordan defy gravity, hearing Pavarotti in his prime, being on a vision quest and hearing the Moody Blues playing in my mind, talked to owls and have them talk back to me for over 30 minutes, doing for other and they never find out, and successfully revived 3 children (so far) from a certain death using just my hands and brains.

I always tell my daughter that if I am on life support, let me go to be with Jesus and don't stop me. I have had a very very wonderful life and do not fear the undiscovered country. Once you lose that big fear...everything else is a piece of cake. You see further, understand better, think clearly, and do things with a better purpose.

See I just saved you all several thousand dollars either in psychiatrist bill or a self improvement course.