May 10
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The things we love…
I love when I have French fries and a ketchup packet that squirts ketchup directly onto the fry before I sail it into my mouth. It’s got to be one of my favorite things about life.
I love reading in the sunshine. It doesn’t matter where I am, as long as there is sun and as long as there is me lying there soaking in the beautiful rays. I love country music and checking out trucks as we drive around town. I love the idea of fishing off a bridge or boat, learning to surf and going mudding on a four-wheeler.
I love a good baseball game and screaming at the TV for the NBA playoffs to end up just right. I love talking in the syrupy sweet southern accent my momma gave me and dreaming up a future filled with all these things. I love crying during a chick flick and when everything in my room matches. I love knowing the words to dozens of songs I never would have listened to because my little brother keeps singing them to me. I love taking mini road trips through life dancing through beautiful conversation and figuring out a little more about myself and those I love most.
I love sitting at the computer with my radio playing writing out every bit of my heart I’m willing to give to you. I love going out to the mailbox and finding a letter just for me—that’s more meaningful than an ad or set of grocery store coupons. I love the smell of freshly washed laundry and the way I feel when someone loves me. In short, I love this life and so many things in it.
Lately though, it has been easy to find things a little less lovable. There are the stresses, the traumas, the difficulties and so many things that make me want to curl up and cry. It can be talked about all day and still not cover everything that’s going wrong.
One of these conversations was going on (the one where everything about a certain situation seems horrible) when I finally said “Let’s talk about trucks and fishing.” In other words: let’s stop talking about all these miserable things excessively and think about the things that aren’t. I love trucks and fishing! They are still here in this life along with the things that are hardest to get through. There is a time and a place to talk about those things, but sometimes it’s time to quit that subject, or subjects, and talk about trucks and fishing or ketchup that squirts perfectly onto a French fry. This life is too short to worry about everything that you hate all the time…spend time discovering and remembering things that you LOVE.
What do you love anyway?
