Breathtaking Events And 1000 Reasons To Smile

“In the end, it is not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.” This is an excellent saying. Try to remember when you felt that your breath was so ‘breathtaking.’ I tried to do this and this is what I found out about me. When I got a decent and interesting job in 1951 and rose to a high executive position in the firm. When I met my husband on a blind date and after two dates, felt he was the ‘one’ for me. When we married and I saw him as I walked up the aisle. I have all this documented on three D slides. When we had our first child and then our second child. home. When Dad died and that was a different kind of breath situation. When Mom died twenty years later than Dad and it was a second terrible breath happening. When I danced in competitions starting in 1982 and won my first six huge trophies in Miami Beach, Florida at age forty-eight. When I continued on and won many more. When I got a new car several times, all brand new and pretty. When my children married. When my first grandson, second grandson, third grandson and then the fourth was a little girl were born When they each learned to talk and said I love you Grammie. When I started publishing articles on the Hunt Valley-Cockeysville Patch. When I am thinking that if my aching knees stop aching, I will try to compete again for some dance awards next June 2017 right here in Baltimore County, Maryland. There is much to take our breaths away and that is in a good and meaningful way. Also the first time I went on a cruise ship and the first time I flew and I was age thirty-eight and went to London and Paris. Also when I saw famous buildings, paintings and castles on these trips. I guess that is enough about me, how about you? Have you ever stopped to think about the really special events, times and occasions you participated in and felt a good breathless feeling? This is not like when the doctor examines you and he or she says “breathe in, breathe out.” We many times feel that we wish things could be more exciting, more exhilarating and more frequent. We see others who may do more stimulating and thrilling things and wonder why they do not happen to us. Then we have to go about and try to have these same things transpire to us. We may have to make them materialize by doing other deeds or take part in different events to have this occur to us. I knew a lady who when a young girl thought she had a dull life. She did not have a lot of money to try various activities and so she took a second job which she went to after her first job ended at five p.m. in an office. She took on working about twenty hours more as a cashier person in a big grocery chain. They allowed her to come to work about six to ten p.m. several nights a week. She took the extra money she made less the taxes and saved it and was able to book a cruise to the Caribbean and she received a low rate, because she booked the cruise only three days before it left from the harbor. While on this fast booking trip with the spare money she made at the supermarket, she met a nice young man and they spent the whole week together enjoying each other. When they came back to port, she left for home in New York and he came home to Philadelphia. They connected often and met several times in New York and many times in Philadelphia. After about a year, they knew they were meant for each other and they invited me to the wedding in New York City. I did not go, but I was so happy and excited for them and especially that they met on board and all because she saved the money and was able to go on this trip. It was a one in a thousand ‘breathtaking’ meeting and the results were surely life changing for both of them. Now they have had their first child, a daughter and they named her Sierra which is a different spelling of sea. They met on the sea and that is why the name was given to her. This story is certainly an example of breath taking events, happiness and joy. There is another saying that says “When life gives you one hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” I am sure if you try my little test of your breath taking events and especially a good event; then you will find there are probably a thousand reasons to smile and to be happy. Smiling and being happy, they say, can make your life healthier and we know that it makes you have more excellent moments and happier days. We should all try for one thousand reasons to smile and to have many more wonderful ‘taking our breath away’ situations and every one of them special, delightful and sweet. When I got married, we hired a very fine photographer and he was there and then I turn around for some before the wedding shots and there is a man who I had gone out with for a few months helping out the one I hired. It did not make me feel too happy, but I smiled for a few of the shots he was taking of me. I made a comment to him that I really wanted the one I hired and he walked away and voila the one I was paying for his expertise took over. This is what I paid for and I spoke up and I am glad I did. This took my breath away and I did not want that happening on my special day. I wanted to frame my special day with all love and happiness and so I did what was right for us. Speak up for yourself when it is right and do not feel you are wrong.