Fountain of youth

Last night Daniel and I were invited to the grand opening of "la Feria del libro" where many vendors come to sell books. We have participation there like it has been done for the last seven years and this time the emphasis is on how to help the youth and young adults from falling into the traps of adversity. This reminds me of the quote:


 “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them”

That is so true.  We rarely recognize how amazing the moments of life are until they are behind us and we are looking back, and then we think “Wow, I wish I realized how great that time was while I was living it”.  Which is really a shame if you think about it.  Because in the moment we couldn’t see that.  We couldn’t appreciate how awesome it actually was.

As I was looking at old photos of myself in high school and College I realized that I wasn’t overweight like I thought I was at the time, and I wish I had appreciated the body I had back then instead of constantly tearing myself down thinking I looked awful, especially now that I would trade that past body for my current one in a heartbeat!  I remember getting  to some skinny jeans and how I wished I could wear  those again.  

I think a lot of us do that.  We don’t see it until is gone and then we think, “if only I had realized it at the time.”  But I certainly don’t want to live my life like that anymore.  I don’t want to wait until I am sick to realize how lucky I was when I was healthy.  I don’t want to wait to have someone gone from my life to realize how blessed I was to have them every day.  I don’t want to have to wait until the moment is passed to see how awesome it was and how lucky I was to be part of it.

I want to start to see it right there and then as it happens so I can savor every second of each experience.  I want to appreciate every friendship and every day that I am healthy and every challenge I overcome as I am overcoming it.  And so I am going to use that quote as a way to remember that I want to love my life as I live it!  I want to enjoy it as its happening and appreciate each moment for being a good day, not a good old day. " Amy I want to make sure that I enjoy my time as of how it is now and forget too much of how much prettier I used to be. What you see is what you get. I am not for plastic surgery.