Take a Walk

  So this weekend was a big weekend for me. I went on a little bit of an adventure and I went and visited my sister. The thing about this little trip is that it was something that I absolutely needed... You know when you've just been kind of hitting your head against a brick wall, and you just need a breath of fresh air to get some perspective back.  Well that's what this weekend has given to me.  And seriously thank god for sisters like mine.  

  Anybody that knows me or that has talked to me in the last five years knows that Chicago is one of my absolute favorite cities, and on this special occasion I got to see the town in a whole other light.  And believe me there is nothing quite like sitting on the balcony of a high rise drinking a beer and just watching and observing the city.  Watching the cars drive by and watching all the people walking this way and that. Each of them living their own separate lives, each of them with their own unique story to tell. They are all the heroes of their own stories.  

  I got to walk around a major city in the rain and let me just tell you all for the record there is just nothing like it. And yes I know that I have this infatuation with romanticism and I fancy myself as one of the last great romantics, but god was it great. I mean the rain is coming down, but it doesn't even matter, the city doesn't just shut down, people are still on the go doing whatever it is that they have planned, and I just get to take it all in.  The people scurrying about, the horns of the cab drivers blaring out as they speed down the street, bums packing up their stuff trying to find a dry spot away from the rain. I promise you there is nothing quite like it.

  I find myself here at 230 in the morning writing this hoping that the feelings and the inspiration that I have right now never ends. I almost don't want to wake up tomorrow because I know I'm going to have to go to the airport and come home, and I'm really just not ready for all that. I want to walk around this city some more, I want to go and see more art, I want to be one face in a sea of millions of people but feel as if I totally stand out.

  So tonight I'm asking each and everyone of you that reads this, the next time you get the chance, TAKE A WALK. I know that my core audience is in Oklahoma and that's okay. Go downtown and just walk around the buildings. Look around at all that is going on and all the beauty that is around you. And while you're walking take a little time for yourself and think about anything and everything. And after you've spent enough time contemplating the mysteries of the universe remember this..... Remember just how lucky you are to be alive and living that very day, remember that that day is the greatest day of your life, and no matter what is happening or what will happen it will be okay. Because we are all infinite, and our lives no matter how big or small transcend time and space.