Every Day An Adventure

Write about your favorite adventure from your life so far.

I've had this question stuck in the back of my mind for a week now...

To be completely honest, I'm pretty much a homebody.
Don't get me wrong, I love going out and making memories but there is nothing better than coming home at the end of a long day or night and putting on your sweats and just veggin' out with the person you love or your family or dog or whoever is in your life. (I used to go to school during the day and then go to work in the evening. I would come home at like 10:30 and heat my dinner up and then eat it in bed while watching Conan and my dog would come lay on my bed and I just miss that so much.)

If I had to pick something recent though, it'd definitely be our anniversary trip to Baltimore two weeks ago. Sleeping in, cashing in all our change to get Chik-Fil-A, seeing Interstate 70 literally end and turn into a roundabout, the World's Most Incredible Art Museum, the World's Least Incredible Art Museum (if you like free stuff, skip the American Visionary Art Museum and go to the Baltimore Museum of Art instead!), complaining about rush hour traffic and bipolar Maryland weather with my best friend, discovering a new band because they were the opening act, seeing the look on his face seeing his favorite band perform for the first time...

But then I think about my childhood and running through the *tiny* patch of sunflowers in my Papa's garden with my cousin, that day in 1st grade when I wrote a story for the first time and knew my life would never be the same, or the Florida Georgia Line concert last summer, or going to D.C. for Spring Break in the 11th grade and spending the entire trip texting my prom date/best friend (NOT the same best friend I would end up falling in love with just a month later)...

Maybe this is why I found it so hard to answer the question of my "favorite" adventure.

Because I find life itself to be an adventure.
I think everyone  can find something in each day that they'll remember and could tell the story of over and over and it's not always something remarkable; sometimes it's as simple as giving yourself a break for a day or getting through your writer's block or making the world's greatest sandwich.

The remarkable stuff is awesome but it doesn't happen all the time, so learn to appreciate all the stuff in between because every day of this life is an adventure and if you spend time trying to fill it with remarkable stuff you're going to miss out on a lot.

"A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more"

How do you know?

If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would it be? Where would you meet and what would you talk about?

There are so many influential people I would love to sit down with. They range from political figures like Bernie Sanders (no surprise there) and Abraham Lincoln, to YouTube sensations to my personal heroes/spirit animals. In order, these are:

1. Mindy Kaling
2. Lauren Conrad
3. Nicki Minaj
4. Taylor Swift
5. Selena Gomez


But at this point in my life I have really started to re-explore and reevaluate my faith and my relationship with God.

The location doesn't matter (though I would love to see the world through his eyes).

And I just have one pressing question for him:

How do I know I'm going to be okay?

I know He knows, but how am I supposed to realize when I feel like everything is crashing down around me that, "everything happens for a reason and this is my path"?

Not that my life is some gigantic mess but...
I have a hard time following through (especially when it comes to promises I make myself).

Because every day I feel like a different person.

Some days I wake up and think about how much I hate my job and my school and the place I live and I start thinking about the future and how great it will be when I'm making six figures and living in a big house with a pool and like 82 dogs and my kids will excel at everything (obviously, because they're my kids).

But then I think about where I am now. Sitting here, in my own apartment, writing this because I don't have anything more pressing to be doing. And I bought a necklace today that I know the girls at work will flip out over when I wear it this weekend.
Speaking of the girls at work, I get to wake up every day and 1) be around clothes, 2) help people look their best, and 3) hang out with my best friends all day.


So how am I supposed to know if I'm doing everything right in life?
How are any of us supposed to know if this one decision we make or this one chance we take or this one person we meet will change our lives for better or for worse?

What is my path?
What even is a path?
Is it one end destination that every event leads up to?
Or do all of the events wind up being the path all along?

How do I know that I'll be with kids who excel at everything and a six-figure income? Is that something I made up to make myself feel better, or are you telling me that, God?

How do I know I'll be okay?
How do we know we'll be okay?


How do you know?

Step 1: Give Up

Serenity.

It's the feeling you get when you're sitting on a porch or a dock on a nice night. And there's no noise except for the bugs chirping. And it's dark enough that you can't see. And it's a little chilly but it doesn't matter because you're with your best friend or the love of your life and you probably just broke down or had a life changing moment because you don't just get nights like that without giving something in return.

You don't get to be serene until you give up a piece of yourself.

Surrender to serenity.