Because someone told me to do it that’s why. I can easily get talked into anything. Not that I’m a daredevil type but I do like to challenge myself. I know I’ll never be president (a job I have no desire to obtain) and I’ll probably never walk the moon (see how I changed the phrase from never to ‘probably never?’) I am just an original girl from the Midwest with no desire to shine at the national level. Honestly I just want to see what an original girl with no extra original gifts can do. So I guess that’s why I made my list.
Do you know how many people live in St. Louis and have never been to the top of The Arch? That’s just unreal to me. I don’t want my job to dictate my life. Or the amount of money I make to decide if I can take a trip to the zoo. I want to see the world not take over the world! I want to live life to the fullest. As Joe E. Lewis so profoundly said, “You only live once, and if you work it right, once is enough.” Although I have found different variations of his quote, it is so true. (As I am typing this the guy across the wall just announced that he has never been to The Muny!!! I swear people need to get out more.)
My goal on earth is to get to heaven. I don’t want to get to heaven and God ask what I did with the life He gave me and my respond be, “Well, I worked 40 hours a week and spent 4.75 hours in the car each week. On the weekends I had to clean the house and I was so exhausted from my week that I sat in front of the tube all day…” blah blah blah. But isn’t that the way we all feel about our lives at some point or another? It’s a constant circle of work, work, work. And then when it comes time to play you have to put in a little work to make the play fun. It stresses me out sometimes.
As my sister said in her speech at my wedding reception, “Trena is a dreamer.” That indeed is a fact. And she was right again when she said I was a different dreamer. I like to make my dreams come true. Running a marathon was on my list and I crossed that off in 2002 in the Rome Marathon. (side note: All my dreams are not painful. I have many pain-free dreams.) But really, my dreams aren’t big. They are just original things that an original person can do. You just have to think outside the box sometimes. Unfortunately the world we live in likes to lock us in our box and throw away the key. Honestly, look at your life. And who are you living for? Are you living for yourself or for someone else? For years I lived a life that would please those around me. For years I lived a life that pleased my boss. For years I was trapped in other people’s ideas of how my life should be. And I slowly am escaping. I want my life to mirror Jesus Christ and in order for that to happen I need to pop the bubble.
So in a nut shell, that’s why I started my blog. I want to take my thoughts to the next level. Instead of using this mind, that God so graciously gave me, to write about cell phone towers to my clients, I want to use my mind in a creative fashion. I want to go to heaven and be able to say, “God, I tried my best to use my gift for You? Did you approve?”
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