Living Life to the Fullest

Tonight's entry was going to go in a completely different direction until my ride home just now. I spent a lovely, romantic evening with my friend Adrienne....walking along the beach and having a nice meal watching the sun go down at Dockside in Sea Bright. All very cute...I know. As we start our trip home, we decide...of course..to blast Kings of Leon. This is the 'all of a sudden they are the coolest band in the world so now Monaco doesn't like them as much' big summer band. Anywho...we are listening to their latest CD, 'Only By the Night.' Very good stuff.

So we're listening to my favorite song on the CD, 'Be Somebody' and I'm rocking out like the ship's about to go down...all while driving, yes. It's fine. When you have as much energy as I do, these things come very naturally. So I'm rocking out...singing into my always faithful cell phone microphone...when a Jeep pulls up to me and honks their horn. I can't look to the side to see who it is, so instead I continue my jam session. Adrienne looks over at me and says- was that Dan and Christina?? I look up at the Jeep that's now in front of me to see that it is in fact Dan and Christina. He had just taken her out to dinner for her birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS)...what a nice guy.

Well we pull into the jug handle to get onto Leonardville Road back to my house and I notice that I have a text message from Christina. I open it up to read, "HAHA Dan was just like look at that girl in front of us...she's rocking out. its probably Bijas." And it was!!!

How hysterical is that? I laughed the rest of the way home. When I got home to tell my mom that story the only thing that she could do (besides laugh and probably think to herself...christ my daughter is crazy) was say that that reminded her of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. One point that he made, which really speaks to my overall viewpoint on life...

"President Cohen, when I told him I was going to do this talk, he said, please tell them about having fun, because that’s what I remember you for. And I said, I can do that, but it’s kind of like a fish talking about the importance of water. I mean I don’t know how to not have fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there’s no other way to play it."

So there you have it. At this very moment in my life I can honestly say that I have mastered the art of living life to the fullest. And that is with close to zero dollars at most times and just a ton of really awesome friends. I encourage you all to do that same and be that person the next time someone pulls up next to you in your car while you're rocking out. I guarantee it puts a smile on your face.

Goodnight.