Regular Ole' Days
The internet is down at work today, so my co-worker/partner in crime decided to head to a coffee shop to utilize the internet there. Of course, my laptop is lacking in the wireless internet capabilities, but I do have word and the option to save my work, so thus, comes my blog. On our way to the coffee shop, I was reading through Beyonce’s new CD and the last line of her Thank you’s says “Live everyday like its your last...”and I have to say, that I don’t agree with this adage. Now, for most of us, we don’t live like Beyonce. Most of us have jobs and have to work everyday to make ends meet. For example, here is what the typical day for Brandelyn looks like.
7:30 am...awaken to the blaring sounds of ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ blasting from my cell phone.
7:45 am Actually get out of bed.
7:45-8:30 Purpose Driven Life and Devotional
8:30- 9:30 Piddle around the house (Activities Include but are not limited to, Washing dishes, putting away randomly strewn clothing, making and consuming breakfast, reading a few pages of the boondocks anthology to get my mind right to deal with THE MAN)
9:30-10 Get dressed and head to work
10:45 Get to work and proceed to do what I do until about Noon
12 – 1 Lunch and Subsequent Sunbathing in the back patio
1-4 work
4 Bounce, and head to the house where I commence to working on the novel, contemplating my life and being an overall G...
See, nothing too exciting there, but a necessary routine that enables me to pay bills and purchase Carols Daughter to my hearts content. Now of course, I would love for something amazingly exciting to happen everyday, but let’s be realistic, I don’t think I could handle it. I get super juiced from a random dream, what would happen if my dreams became reality everyday. I get what the adage means, don’t waste a day, but honestly some days are meant to be wasted! That random Tuesday in November when its raining and cold and the thought of getting out of bed is so overwhelming that you realize that it is just not going down. What better way to spend a day like that then to float somewhere between conscience and awake, snuggly with your stuffed animal of choice, (shout out to BEAR). Now this day can be considered wasted because for me, no writing would get done, no reading would get done, nothing productive would get done, but on the flipside, I would get some much needed rest and relaxation.
I am of course not saying that we shouldn’t dream. Everyone has to dream and have something to look forward to. And you should take every opportunity you can to pursue that, (Let me just take this moment to shout out my Good Friend Crispus Attucks aka Elosi for those in the know, who will be debuting this Friday in her first published article...thank you...) but if you don’t take a moment and acknowledge that you are going to have some just regular days, then you will drive yourself crazy trying to get to the dream. Enjoy the simple days. Enjoy life as it comes. Seize every chance that comes your way and cherish it, but realize and acknowledge, that you are going to simply have, some regular ole’ days.
Peace Y’all
