Forty Three

Day Forty Three:  Anecdotal

Have you ever had that one moment when time freezes in your mind and you see whatever situation you are sitting in before you? Not quite like an out of body experience, but the evening slows, and you see the things around you differently for a moment.  This happened this evening as I sat at a dinner table with three very good friends, a glass of wine in one hand and some witty quip in the other.  I looked over at my friend Ben who was probably taunting me about my major and how it is different than his (Human Kinetics, if you are interested…or, that’s what I think it is, he loves anatomy…) and then at Jude, the birthday girl, laughing along and enjoying her break.  To Hailey, who I hardly see at any given time during the semester so it was wonderful to chat with her and enjoy this time.  Looking at these three people, enjoying conversation, and time froze around ,e.

The table was in complete disarray after our eating everything on it, and the wine was just about to be finished, and cake was mentioned, and then it happened.  I think I blinked maybe once, and nothing was moving.  The Wallflowers stopped playing, and the laughter ceased into hazy smiles on their faces.  It was a “candid camera” moment that is akin to those nineties home-video style birthday video’s we used to have, where the camera is askew and everyone seems to be mid-sentence.  I breathed in once, just once, blinked again, and it was gone.  It was a photograph printed in memory inside of me now, and it tells a story that I just needed today.

This week has been stressful to say the least, but it is looking up.  As of 2:30 pm tomorrow I will be ready for reading week, having finished (for the most part) my pre-break projects, and I will be heading to the Bullring to meet my lovely roomie for a spinning class and then home for some finishing touches and then most likely a wine and House of Cards Filled evening.  Life is beautiful, and sometimes we forget about it because it hides itself from us with all of this clutter and mess, this disarrayed but involved reality that we are all living in.  I encourage everyone to stop, breathe, and take a minute to appreciate all that is around you.  I don’t see much, but what I do see is fabulous.

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