Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure
A year in the life?
Seasons of love.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes!
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Journeys to plan.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life
Of a woman or a man?
In truths that she learned,
Or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died.
It's time now to sing out,
Tho' the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of a friend.
It's that time of year again to think about the year gone by and to report on the adventures takes and experiences had.
This year there was much less anxiety about getting older-although the anxiety is ever present in one form or another-mostly because this year felt like an eternity. So much has happened in the last 365 days that it felt time to move on to bigger and better 21 things. This whole month it has very much been a Lion King "it's time" atmosphere. Life is always about moving on. There is a beautiful song called Move On written by Stephen Sondhiem for Sunday in the Park with George which expresses this sentiment in exactness. If you don't move on, what do you have? Life is empty without growth and development.
I feel like I've learned a lot this year about life-about me. Life isn't always a walk in the park. Sometimes it's hard and there are many times you feel like giving up and throwing in the towel. But then where would you be? It's the hard times that make the easy times easy. If it was all cake there would be no one to eat the brownies or the ice cream? We need a well-balanced diet of chaos and peace-of happiness and sorrow.
Enough chatter, here's what you all came for.... the crazies...
21 before 21
1. Snuck cake into the theater and frosted it during the previews
2. Visited Starbucks headquarters
3. Climbed the bluff by the Larsen residence
4. Went shopping at Pike Place Market
5. Bleached my hair
6. Had my "energy" (palm) read
7. Shattered my rear view mirror on Mexico's garbage can
8. French prayers
9. Owed the IRS
10. Took Latin
11. Climbed Dixie Rock and ripped my pants
12. Read a trashy dollar store novel - Lust's Betrayal
13. Had my car booted twice in one week
14. Obtained red Wrap-around Toms boots
15. Bought a fun flask
16. Went skeet shooting
17. Beat Angry Birds
18. Built a snowman in St. George
19. Ate kiwi with the skin on
20. Dyed my hair "black"
21. Ate pizza with M&Ms (sick)
Along with so many more fun and exciting things accomplished and shared this past year.
I did a bang up job being 20 and feel fully ready to tackle being 21.
Words of new found wisdom:
Life is short.
Make each day worthwhile in whatever way possible.
Have fun now.
Laugh while you work.
Love with all your heart.
Tell people what they mean to you.
Make family a priority.
Goodnight, dear void.
