I think about things our bodies can do:
Smile
Scream
Blink
Create
Cry
Our eyes can light up when our soul is inspired, or they can cloud over when we have been hurt.
Without utilizing our brains, our legs can carry us to familiar places. Our hands can create art, food, and design.
This year I saw my heart on an echocardiogram screen. I watched it beat and heard the blood rush through the chambers. It was extraordinary to look at the little muscle that keeps me feeling and walking. In all honesty it was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.
Yet, I think the most incredible thing our bodies can do is laugh. How beautiful is it that we are given a visceral reaction to joy?
I laugh at everything. My mom always says I am a comedian’s dream audience member. My friends don’t believe me when I tell them they’re funny because everything makes me laugh.
But isn’t it better to laugh at everything rather than to smile at nothing?
The other day I saw a commercial, what the product was for I don’t remember. The message though, was lovely:
What if we celebrated each new day like we do each new year?
Each Dec. 31, we talk about highlights and lowlights of the year, and resolve to do certain things differently. Why don’t we view each new day with the same value? Some days are good, and some are bad, but each night the sun falls and we have a chance to try again the next day. This is a blessing, an opportunity that we should not waste.
Tomorrow I resolve to exercise my spirit and laugh more: I’ll laugh about laughing at everything.
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I hope in 2011 to blog more often. What kinds of things are you interested in reading about?
1 comments:
Reminds me of something I wrote/ felt in Turkey:
"I watched my friends create so many gorgeous things in the form of sound, and laughter, and dance, and music and I ate them all and at the end of the night my soul was so full that I just wanted to cry and scream and laugh, but it seemed like an impossible task.
All I could do was think of this central concept... that humans are partners in creation and we have the power to produce a lot of beauty not just in art forms, but in actions, and in varying talents. I mean isn't it so incredible that God, or a higher being, or whatever pushed the world into motion also gave us the power to CREATE?"
This is so beautiful Laiah.
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