Lightning

In the past couple of weeks, I have been through a few changes. Today I was thinkng about stormy weather, and what we all tend to do to avoid being caught out in it. I remembered how when I was walking in to work in the rain I saw other women running, squealing because they were getting rained on...I thought to myself, it's not acid! sheesh. Then, as my mind wandered, I was comparing lightning to life. Lightning is the flash of light for a split few seconds that illuminates all around us. If we have our eyes open to it, then we can see everything there is to see. I have recently had my own dose of lightning in my life. It tends to make you reflect on how things are so different in the dark. How something that you thought was good, really in a dfferent light, well...isnt. It can also make  you see things that you didn't know were there at all. Make you compare how you are used to certain things, yet are able to appreciate how they are now. Thankfulness is the best word I can think of right now. I always believed that bitter makes you appreciate the sweet. I still firmly believe this. I would like to add that you cannot have lightning without the thunder. No rainbow without the rain. On to the next topic...

I was standing in line at the grocery store the other night when a woman in front of me was talking on her phone. This is not newsbreaking, but at the end of her conversation she instinctly said "I love you." Minutes later she gets on the phone again, with it seemed the same person, as the conversation picked right up where it left off. Again, the last words were "I love you." It got me to thinking about how those words have become conversation fillers. How sometimes we tend to over-use it, or say it based on a sole reflex. When did those words lose their meaning? Do not mistake what I am saying...I do not think we should stop saying it by any means, but it should not come out just as easily as "see ya later." or "have a nice day." It is almost as if we are robots that recite what we are programmed to say. Shouldn't the ones we love already know how we feel, by our actions? You can say it all day long, that doesn't always make it true. The people you love, know that you love them because you show that you care. You may not shower them in "I love you's" every minute of the day, but at the end of the day, they can feel it. THAT is how it should be. Hearing it is always nice, but feeling it is ten times better. (TWSS). Next...

It is now July, and half the summer is over. I can honestly say that the last couple months have flown by!! They have been busy, hectic, exciting, exhaaaaausting, but oh so worth it. I have 3 concerts down, 3 to go, with probably more in the works now that my extremely talented bf is in a band :). I am oh so proud of him. There are awesome plans yet to come this year, and I couldn't imagine it any other way. I think we have lots to come in our future. Traveling, music, food, and of course laughing at all our stupid inside jokes that everyone looks at us like we are crazy for....:) Everything is finally meshing. It's easy like Sunday morning.