Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The Best Day of My Life
Today is the best day of my life.
It's not the best day I've ever had, I won't even try to decide which one that was, I've had lots of great days in my life. I'm grateful for each and every one of them up to this point.
But today is the best day I'm going to have for the rest of my life. Tomorrow I will be slightly worse off. The day after, slightly more so. And so it goes until I get so bad that I'm confined to a bed, until I can no longer dress myself or do the littlest things to take care of myself.
But today, today is the best day of my life. Today I can cook and clean (even if I hate to do so), I can bathe myself, I can still drive and get myself to work. Once there, no matter what [Nameless Company] thinks of me, regardless of how they treat me, I can still do my job and do it well.
Because the right side of my body is more affected than the left, I can still play guitar. I wasn't very good to start with, but my abilities haven't fallen off dramatically even though I have a degenerative neurological disease. I can still play harmonica and sing. My brain still works, and I can still come up with songs of my own and I'm still able to figure out how to play songs written by others.
My brain still works, and by all accounts will continue to do so. My brain has always been a lot more about who I am than what my body was ever able to do. The things I'm best known for come from in my brain. I get to keep them all.
Today is the best day of my life. I told someone once, a couple of months ago, that I didn't want to spend any time with her because I didn't want to waste the best day of my life on her. Now I'm with [someone] and I'm so pleased, every time I'm with her, to be spending the best day of my life with her. I want to spend as many of the remaining best days of my life with her as I can. She makes every day special, and when I realize that it's also the best day of my life, well, that's pretty amazing.
So today is the best day of my life. I'm going to enjoy it. Maybe some people will say I'm wasting it, but I don't think so. I'm doing what I want to do. I'm spending the best day of my life on my terms. I'm not at work, I don't have to go for 3 days, I haven't showered yet, maybe I'll order a pizza for supper and watch an episode of The Simpsons. I'll think about [someone] and realize how lucky I am that she puts up with me. It's the best day of my life. I'll decide how to spend it.
BOJ
It's not the best day I've ever had, I won't even try to decide which one that was, I've had lots of great days in my life. I'm grateful for each and every one of them up to this point.
But today is the best day I'm going to have for the rest of my life. Tomorrow I will be slightly worse off. The day after, slightly more so. And so it goes until I get so bad that I'm confined to a bed, until I can no longer dress myself or do the littlest things to take care of myself.
But today, today is the best day of my life. Today I can cook and clean (even if I hate to do so), I can bathe myself, I can still drive and get myself to work. Once there, no matter what [Nameless Company] thinks of me, regardless of how they treat me, I can still do my job and do it well.
Because the right side of my body is more affected than the left, I can still play guitar. I wasn't very good to start with, but my abilities haven't fallen off dramatically even though I have a degenerative neurological disease. I can still play harmonica and sing. My brain still works, and I can still come up with songs of my own and I'm still able to figure out how to play songs written by others.
My brain still works, and by all accounts will continue to do so. My brain has always been a lot more about who I am than what my body was ever able to do. The things I'm best known for come from in my brain. I get to keep them all.
Today is the best day of my life. I told someone once, a couple of months ago, that I didn't want to spend any time with her because I didn't want to waste the best day of my life on her. Now I'm with [someone] and I'm so pleased, every time I'm with her, to be spending the best day of my life with her. I want to spend as many of the remaining best days of my life with her as I can. She makes every day special, and when I realize that it's also the best day of my life, well, that's pretty amazing.
So today is the best day of my life. I'm going to enjoy it. Maybe some people will say I'm wasting it, but I don't think so. I'm doing what I want to do. I'm spending the best day of my life on my terms. I'm not at work, I don't have to go for 3 days, I haven't showered yet, maybe I'll order a pizza for supper and watch an episode of The Simpsons. I'll think about [someone] and realize how lucky I am that she puts up with me. It's the best day of my life. I'll decide how to spend it.
BOJ
Labels: Positive Tuesday
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