You go ahead, let your hair down

Listening: Put your Records On
--Corinne Bailey Rae

Today was beautiful. Today was too beautiful to not feel good inside. It was sunny, gorgeous, 64 degrees. I can't remember the last time I was able to enjoy 64 degree weather (thanks a lot global warming). I have been listening to this song, Hope: The Rain Won't Last Forever. It has these lyrics:

Somebody said that nothing lasts forever
Just a storm so I've been told
But it seems that when it rains, it pours.

And you know the rain won't last forever
And you know the storm won't always blow
But if the sun don't shine forever
You gotta let it go....

It was so appropriate today. After so many days of storming, the sun finally came out. It was like the world giving me direct orders. Fate, I'd say, there aren't any coincidences in life.

I finally realized, that right now at this moment, I have no strings attached, with the exception of that ball and chain (medical school). When am I ever going to have this opportunity again? To live life, be happy, and worry about myself, and solely about myself??

I want to live my life now, because quite frankly, if I don't today, I never will get this opportunity to again. Thirty years from now, I don't want to look back on my life and feel like I never really lived at all. I won't remember the grades I made, I will remember the memories I created. Memories aren't made in the library, or on report cards, or even in class rankings.

It's funny, how we take what we have for granted--because it is only human to want more, and to worry about tomorrow. But life isn't about that, at all. It's about being happy with who you are, it's about living, and absolutely nothing else.

Nothing lasts forever.

Enjoy it while it lasts.