11.4 California Daze
Today was a lovely, relaxed day. We were supposed to have an ISP this morning at a local garden, but it RAINED here, which never ever happens so it was cancelled. We all met in the laundry room at 7:45 with all our rain gear, got in the van and started to pull away when Roy got the call that it was off. So we changed into our "civi" clothes, as we call them, and drove to IHOP instead. I got pepper and onion hash browns and coffee, and we talked about our favorite holidays and Jasmine and I had a contest where we tried to see who could compliment each other the most and in the most obnoxious fashion. When we ran out of normal stuff to compliment, we started praising things like the way each others' heels looked in her sandals. it was fun and uplifting at first, but it made everyone want to punch us in the face.
The rain made us all a little hazy. After IHOP I took a two hour nap. I've been sleeping so much lately, it's weird. I can take a three hour nap and go to bed at 10 no problem. I'm still convinced I'm living in some type of time warp. My team and I spent the afternoon playing ping pong and pool in the main building, bored but happy. Alexis and I went for a run eventually because we felt like lards. When I came back to the main building after running and showering, my team had gotten a ton of pizzas, bless their souls.
After dinner we watched Arrival. Man that movie messed me up. It really makes you think about whether you are making your days count. I think about this all the time, whether I really am making the most out of every minute I'm given. it's probably one of my biggest fears to discover I'm not. To me, living fully doesn't have to mean doing crazy things all the time that you're scared of, or going on wild adventures (though these things also count, they just simply are not sustainable for day to day life). I guess living fully is recognizing in each moment that you are living and that one day you will die. It doesn't matter if you're hanging off a cliff in Arizona or sitting on the ground in your dorm eating Oreos. Taking a deep breath, feeling everything, noticing everything (especially how very lucky you are), that to me is living Fully. I don't want to let myself miss a single thing.
Here's a nice little quote from Arrival, to throw all my my mumbo jumbo thoughts together:
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it and welcome every moment"
~V
The rain made us all a little hazy. After IHOP I took a two hour nap. I've been sleeping so much lately, it's weird. I can take a three hour nap and go to bed at 10 no problem. I'm still convinced I'm living in some type of time warp. My team and I spent the afternoon playing ping pong and pool in the main building, bored but happy. Alexis and I went for a run eventually because we felt like lards. When I came back to the main building after running and showering, my team had gotten a ton of pizzas, bless their souls.
After dinner we watched Arrival. Man that movie messed me up. It really makes you think about whether you are making your days count. I think about this all the time, whether I really am making the most out of every minute I'm given. it's probably one of my biggest fears to discover I'm not. To me, living fully doesn't have to mean doing crazy things all the time that you're scared of, or going on wild adventures (though these things also count, they just simply are not sustainable for day to day life). I guess living fully is recognizing in each moment that you are living and that one day you will die. It doesn't matter if you're hanging off a cliff in Arizona or sitting on the ground in your dorm eating Oreos. Taking a deep breath, feeling everything, noticing everything (especially how very lucky you are), that to me is living Fully. I don't want to let myself miss a single thing.
Here's a nice little quote from Arrival, to throw all my my mumbo jumbo thoughts together:
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it and welcome every moment"
~V
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