You´ve got the following words: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.
What is the sum of all this words? No, it´s not just a really big amount of time: It´s your LIFE!
Everytime I look at my watch I think: "Oh no! Another 30 minutes you just wasted for something unimportant." For something you really don´t want to spend your life with. That made me think of what i actually want to spend my life with.
Imagine there was a witch. Not the one from Ariel, that takes away your voice. Not the one from Rapunzel, that locks you up in a tower and not the one from Snowwhite that tries to kill you with a poisend apple. The one I talk about is a good one - an optiminic thinking one - and she prepares a magic elixir of life. But instead of putting in eyeballs and spiders and fingernails she would put in
- a lot of luck
- pretty much happiness
- (a) never ending love
- true friends
- a loving family
and of course ...
- a fortune of ice-cream (i prefer the one with extra cream on top to feel extra guilty - and don´t forget the cherry please)
I reckon everybody wants to have all these things. More or less. With or without the cherry on top.
But I also think, that everybody has a more concret list of stuff and things to do in their lifes.
I really hope you do; if not I might look like a jerk from now on:
My elixir of life
or
THE-THINGS-TO-DO-TO-MAKE-THE-BEST-OF-YOUR-LIFE-LIST
1. Prepare a meal for a homeless (exludes buying a breakfast burito at MC DONALD`S)
2. Learning to fold an Origami-Dragon (that looked pretty cool on TV)
3. Call everybody in the phone book who got the same name (you don´t know what to talk about? LIFE!)
4. Go christmas shopping in New York
5. Cause a car crash (just with bumper cars ;-) )
6. Kiss Mickey Mouse at Disneyland
7. Go for a run on the Chinese Wall
8. Buy all the cool balloons at Carnival and fly away
9. Go by nighttrain to Paris - just for breakfast
10. Have a nice chat with your echo
11. Bake your own gingerbread house
12. See the world through childrens eyes
13. Touch a snake to realize that it is NOT slimy
14. Send a message in a bottle
15. Crash a wedding (free food and drinks -haha)
16. Swimming with dolphins
17. Write some bestsellers ;-)
18. Give away a star that you bought and named for a special person
19. Rename a street or steal a sign
20. Overwinter a hedgehog in your bed or in your basement (whatever you prefer)
21. read somebody´s future
22. Adopt a homeless child (and love it like it was your own)
23. Travel the world
24. Be unselfish
25. Be selfish
26. End being selfish again
27. Eat a five course dinner in the dark
28. Care for your goldfish
29. Just get on a bus and see where you land
30. Go snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef
31. Ride an elephant
32. Climb a pyramide
33. Care for other people
34. Subtitle the movie of you life
35. Find your true love (or something)
These are just a few examples. I could go on and on and on the whole day / night long.
I really hope my "Elixir of life" made you think about planning your time from now on. Life is short and there are so many things to do. Better not waste time. You never know when you get the next chance to send a message in a bottle, or steal a sign or just care for your goldfish.
Love, Anni & the goldfish
P. S. Do you something you love everyday!
P. S. 2: Don´t forget to kiss Mickey Mouse!
