Chapter two Life is too short to wear your flip flops on the right feet

This week was a special week in my timeline of life events. I had my last first day of college. As I mentioned in my first blog post, “What am I doing” I wrote that I am finishing a goal that I started in August 1990. And on May 16, 2020 with fingers crossed (this semester is going to be a doozie) I will walk across that stage and receive my undergrad in Elementary Education and English as a Second Language teaching degrees from Dr. Reinhold Hill, Dr. Jennifer Conner, and the other fantastic professors at IUPUC.

Twenty-nine years ago, my parents, aunt and uncle drove me and my most precious items to Terre Haute, Indiana. They moved me into Emerson Hall, and that week, I began a new chapter in my life and started a beautiful and fun adventure. And dare I say some of the most fun days of my whole life thus far. Meeting new people, living on my own, and learning who I was and who I wanted to be as a human.

Am I being the best me? Am I treating others kind? Am I just sitting and listening?

Twenty-nine years is longer than the number of years Maggie spent in my life. Our time on earth is so short, and for some of us as in Maggie’s case, it was too short. But we seem to want to rush everything we want things right now we do not take time to sit and listen to the “school bugs” (I am listening to their beautiful sounds now along with my Fall Playlist on Spotify I will share that soon). Or more importantly are we listening to what our souls are telling us. Am I being the best me? Am I treating others kind? Am I just sitting and listening? I ask myself those questions daily, but I still think life is too short to wear your flip flops on the right feet.

Twenty-one years is just not long enough to do all the things this beautiful world has for us to enjoy. It is not long enough to love more people and feel their love. Or enjoy the beautiful sunsets. It is just NOT long enough period. Taking time to enjoy is so essential in making your soul wiser and more beautiful and that is what will make our world a better place.

Maggie was who she was, and she owned it straight up. She did not take the time to put her flip flops on the right feet. She was off and onto the next adventure even if I did not agree with her choices (and most of the time, I did not). Twenty-One years though is all she had, not long enough, especially for me her momma to love her. It is so essential to sit and listen to the school bugs, fun music or to yourself think and breathe, but life might just also be too short to wear your flip flops on the right feet. So make silly faces, eat those cheese curds when in Wisconsin (they are sooooo good), enjoy the sunsets, laugh, love, smile and be kind.

“Life has a way of turning you into the human you should be if you let it” me– Peace and light ~

La Wanda