Simple words….
I don’t get to spend a lot of time with my family but when I do I try to absorb as much as I possibly can from these people. Although some of them may be much different in their lifestyle or beliefs than I am, I can’t help but enjoy the wonderful diversity that my family offers.
For mothers day, a few weeks ago, my family decided to go to the biggest restaurant in the area, which just so happened to be a small town dumpy cafe with food that is edible but nothing to brag about. Included with our meal was a salad bar. Typical salad bar, you know the type, Ice berg lettuce, 3 dressings, assorted cold salads and pudding. ( I have a point, I promise). Me and one of my aunts were walking to the salad bar and she decided to get pudding instead of salad. I thought this was a strange choice especially since she was always the most fit person I know. She looked over at me and must have noticed my confusion and said ” always have desert first, you never know what could happen at dinner”. I didn’t really think much of the statement at the time.
As the days began to pass after I started to think more and more about those simple words and they started to mean more and more to me. I don’t know if she meant it literally or if it was just a fact in her eyes, but I took it as a moto to live your life by.
Dessert, to me, is anything that makes you happy. It’s the parts of life that you have always dreamt about. The things that flooded your mind as an anxious child who couldn’t wait to grow up and change the world. As for dinner, well dinner is your settling. Its your means to an end. It the things you do to get by.
I guess my real point in this entire rant is… Have your dessert first, do the things you always dreamed of but are too afraid to try now. Go out there and change the world, be the person your first grade self would want you to be. Love more, learn more, risk more and be happy, because you never know what will happen at “dinner” and you will never get another chance to live in the moment you are currently in. If you aren’t happy with where you are or whats going on in your life then change it. Trust me as you grow up there will be plenty of time for “dinner”.
