Meaning of Life

Live. Love. Laugh. ~or something to that affect.

As I have been reflecting back over my life, my many careers, my loves, my losses, friendships gained and lost, knowledged learned and yet to be learned- I have come to understand the true meaning of life.

I know that people search for this their entire lives, yet, I have found it at a mere 36.5 and I have to tell you, it is pretty "eye" opening.

.. and all I really had to do, was stop and wait for it to find me.

As it dawned on me what the true meaning was, I was elaited and yet felt completely stupid at the simplicity of it. I did a Homer Simpson and said a big, "DOH" and biddied myself in the forehead and said, "Of Course!"

But Im not the only one that has figured out the secret. Many different cultures and religions understand what the true meaning of life is as well- it is depicted in some of theworlds greatest art- "how can you tell?" you may ask me. By looking at it.

I know that I havent gave the secret away as of yet- and Im not sure that I want too...but I can promise you this:

This has been a summer of discovery for me. Discovering the things that are most important in my life. To love, to laugh , to live fully - that is my promise (HINT: and by the way, that does coincide with the true meaning of life)

Something .. ?... odd

I was driving home from work today when all of a sudden this motorcycle comes out of no-where and the guy on the motorcycle is in SCRUBS!!!

That was kind of funny to me. I thought, Im sure he didnt wear those scrubs to work and that he just happened to wear those home "after" work... but.. what IF he didnt???

He wasnt exactly sterile all day was he - Hmmmmm, curious.

Tall Tale that is 100% true!!

Many years ago, my family and I use to go up to my husbands mothers cabin for fishing, boating and all out fun (never mind that she was and is an evil troll), and we would attempt to have a great time, with all of the other family that would be there.

This one particular summer, grandpa had bought a new pontoon boat and the boys seemed to monopolize a majority of the time..sun up to sundown- they had the boat and my sister-in-law and I were a bit sick of it and decided to grab our fishing poles and take the paddle boat out just a "ways" to see if the fish were biting.

A couple of girls out on the lake isnt all that strange, but we had fishing poles.

FISHING POLES on a paddle boat.

What the hell were we thinking, and I swear it had to be 147 degrees that day.

What we failed to notice was, that we ended up paddling to one end of the lake and just sitting there... gabbing about nothing AND just fishing(and not catching anything)

ALL OF A SUDDEN.. it happened.............

I thought I snagged a piece of wood.... but Ohhh NOOOOO. It was the Monster Fish of the Lake I kid you not. My sister-in-law and I were excited at first then realized at the same moment that we had no actual gear to catch this Monster Fish of the Lake.

Panic started to set in as the paddle boat started to move... yes, started to move. This Monster Fish... actually pulled us from one end of the lake to damn near the other.

We were so screwed. We were dehydrated, tired, had no gear to get rid of this fish or catch him for PROOF, plus we now had to paddle ALL the way back to the cabin at the opposite end of the lake.

I know that our families have never- ever believed us...but I felt the power of the Monster Fish of the Lake that day- Ohhh yes, the power.