One Day

"One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five big days that change everything."

This is a poignant line from the movie, Riding In Cars With Boys, starring Drew Barrymore. Really good movie. I stopped to think about what she said, and you know what? She might be right.

When I sit back and think about my life, there have been tons of great times. I've had my share of bad times, too. Really though, all those times have been transitions between the handful of days when life-changing events have rocked my world for the better or the worse... sometimes both. So far, to the best of my recollection:

September ? 1989
June 22, 1997
March 5, 1998
June 7, 2007
Sept 18, 2010
Jan 2, 2011

And life isnt over, so I patiently await the next life-changing moment, praying it will be a change for the better.

Isnt it crazy how one choice... one event.... one day... can send your life in a completely different direction than you were going? Most of us cant look around and say we are exactly where we thought we would be today. That's because we cant control everything that happens to us. But life is only 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it, so the actual event is a lot less important than what you do next. You'll get knocked down to your lowest point, but will you get up? You'll have the opportunity of a lifetime, but will you take advantage of it? You will make the biggest mistake you could have ever made, but will you learn from it? You will suffer the worst heartbreak known to man, but will you allow yourself to love again?

So many different things occur over the course of a life, but you know.... maybe it does really all boil down to just a handful of days that change everything, and all the stuff in between are just colorful details to make the story worth telling. IDK. Just something I was thinking about....