"I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park!"

I am possibly the most impatient person you will ever meet in your life. I hate that I’ve not started my life yet, that I’m not more settled…. Or even have a plan… I’ve always wanted to be 1 or 2 or maybe even 10 steps ahead of where I am at all times. I was that kid that acted like an adult because I didn’t want to be a kid and have decisions made for me. I have 2 older sisters and this may be in part as to why I am so impatient with my life, when they have things going on I feel like I should to. I forget that they are 6 and 10 years older than me. That they have experienced what I am at this moment in time. I forget that, I think because my parents are impatient with me and my 19 years of schooling… which my mother ever so lovingly decided to point out to me the other day. So what? I am going to be making more money than both of my sisters and doing a job that makes a difference and that I love. I’m just not there yet.

A lot of us want to plan out our lives. Plan it all; where we are going to live, what kind of job we will have, when and how we will get married, when we have children and how many we are having, what kind of house we will have and how we decorate it… and the list goes on and on and on. And it’s easy to get lost in those never ending thoughts and become impatient. Impatience because it isn’t happening yet and impatience that you just can’t get there as fast as you want. But there’s one particular thing in there that we forget… to live. Life isn’t about the destination and how we are going to get there, it’s about the journey getting there and enjoying it! What’s the point in living if all we do is worry about the future and don’t focus on the present?

What brings me to this is the movie Cars (I watched it yesterday hehe). Lightening McQueen is all about the end of the race and getting there as fast as he can. He didn’t slow down to look around and take in the beauty of the world around him and to enjoy life to the fullest. So I’ve decided I’m slowing down and not worrying about the future anymore. Things are going to happen the way they are meant to. Everything happens for a reason so why sit and ponder it? Just enjoy it!