Just a short random thought...
I was speaking to one of my colleagues who seems to have led a remarkable life. I'm sure it's her perspective, but all the same. I am not envious of her, but in wonder I guess. She invited me over to her family's to spend 4th of July with them. As I accepted, we were joking about fireworks here in Co. Springs. She mentioned that the year her family moved here, they all loaded on their roof to see the fireworks that were going to be launched from Pikes Peak. Of course they were going to be larger than life, and the most spectacular fireworks ever. What did they look like? Little blips of color as the mountain's size and distance away over compensated the size of the fireworks. She said all they could do was laugh.
Ok, then I had mentioned that I'd at some point like to see fireworks at the capital... and not on TV. She had lived in Falls Church for a time where she met her husband. He was away at the time but made a date to drive from Canada to DC so that they could see a concert and the fireworks. He picked up a hitchhiker and with that persons help drove all the way from Banff to Pennsylvania where he broke his water pump. His dad helped him fix that ( I assume that he lives somewhere in PA) and told him to hurry up and get to DC so he could marry her. Well, he got to DC in time for the concert and the fireworks show. Ends up, he didn't propose at that time, but shortly later and still on the mall.
That was just a cool story.
I think.... will something like that ever happen to me?? I suppose the truth is no one knows.
So then I thought for a minute and she asked what I was thinking about. Although it seems funny to say, I told her that I was thinking about the movie "The Incredibles". I further explained that there is a little boy sitting on a tricycle as Mr. Incredible gets home. He asks, " What are you waiting for?" and the boy replies," I don't know. Something amazing I guess."
I think that is my current motto for life, "I don't know what I am waiting for. Something amazing I guess."
2 comments:
Great quote...I forgot about that one. (The Incredibles is low on our kids' ranking of Pixar movies so I haven't seen it in a while.) I think a lot of people have that feeling.
Children's movies have so many great quotes. And Pixar is amazing!!!!!!
Another personal favorite is Mary Poppins. 2 from there - "Enough is as good as a feast" and "Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking"
As for the second quote, I haven't decided if I think is true or, if its an example of what people who think they are practically perfect believe. I am in no way perfect, so I don't know if that is true or not ;-)
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