I have this...alternate "dream" version of myself. I guess it isn't really alternate because it would be kind of a future me, but it's not really a person that I'm working towards or anything. It's just like a person that I think it would be cool to be. I think everyone probably has the same kind of ideas. Maybe they don't and I'm just really weird. Whatever.
Alternate me is already graduated (although I adore being a college student; I'm definitely not daydreaming myself out of school), and in an exciting and fulfilling career working at a blood bank. The exciting and fulfilling job pays very well and has excellent hours, and she loves it.
She lives in a small house/large apartment in the Avenues with a massive canine companion that looks something like this for a while:
until it turns into this:
and named something Roman like Titus or Brutus. Or maybe like a pair of Huskies with crazy eyes. Something.
The house looks like the inside of an Anthropologie that has been additionally decorated by this lady. It is always bright and clean and lovely.
She eats a lot of bagels and bakery goods and actually just amazing food in general. She never gains weight, however, except in her chest sometimes, and always has time for working out and doing super fun outdoorsy activities in like the mountains and stuff. Her muscles just keep getting more and more toned, and she is always in the best of health. In the midst of this exciting life she always manages to get a full and fulfilling night's sleep.
The temple is basically in her backyard and she is constantly strengthening and expanding her spiritual knowledge and testimony. She spends a lot of time at Red Butte Gardens, her other favorite place, where she can bask in the glory of nature and get in touch with her connection with herself and everything else in the world.
She is always going to concerts and movies and plays and reading life-changing books, and she finds amazing deals on super "her" clothes and shoes, when she's looking. She is intelligent, and witty, and charming, and the things she says and does are meaningful.
Her favorite tv shows never get cancelled or altered, and Titus/Brutus loves watching them with her on the couch after a day that was packed to bursting with goodness. She is able to perfectly balance hard work and adventure with relaxing downtime.
Her friends and family are there when she needs them, and they always have a good time. (that one is mostly true already.)
For some reason she reminds me an awful lot of the beautiful and sad doctor from House:
People just like her, and she just likes herself. She is happy. And I think that is really all I want from this life: I want truth and I want happiness. I think those two things pretty much sum up and encompass all that is really important to me. And even though I may not ever end up like dream me—heck, there is a chance that none of those things will happen—I think that I will still be able to find truth and happiness if I look hard enough.
Here's to making life what we really, really want it to be.
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