No freaking chocolates...roller coasters.

Sometimes I write about what is most important in my life. But then someone(s) can change the way that I see things in the most minuscule of moments.


What I mean is simply this: Life isn't about what you have in it, it is who you have in your life that is of the utmost importance.


Things that are material are not going to create those memories that we all talk about. It's the people that were with you in these moments that are truly worth hearing about. Think about it this way. When you tell anyone a story you are almost never talking about the material things that were present in that moment. You are always speaking about the people that were there to make that moment in time happen. The part that interests us the most in stories that we share with one another is, who else is in the picture that you are painting for me with your outlandish story.


These stories can be about happiness, bitterness, surprise, sadness, good times, bad times, fun times...this list could go on forever. But the one thing they will all have in common is someone else or another breathing being (in my case my dog is in it a lot) helped make it happen.


Who is it that makes the most vivid memories for you? Mine are always on my mind. All the time, because my mind...man, if you could turn my memories into a ride it would be like the best roller coaster ride on the planet. I would have falls and loops and curves and straight-a-ways like no ones business. But if you think about how a roller coaster is designed it never goes backwards, yes even the ones that you ride backwards...it is always going forward technically in a continuous motion. All of this would be done at a million miles an hour because that is the speed of most of our lives. My roller coaster stops and some people get off the ride and some stay on for the thrill of it all, the others want to see what the heck the ride is all about so they jump on when the ride stops to allow other people on.


The roller coaster reference is me saying a few things. First, that you can blink and miss a memory forever. Second, that this roller coaster is never boring. Third, the passengers change and some are permanent riders...like someone with a year long pass that goes for the ride everyday regardless of how ridiculous it might get. The point is that your roller coaster will always have passengers on it. But the things you cannot bring on a roller coaster are material items that can fly out of the car that you are strapped into because you will lose it, drop it on someone or break it.


Make those memories with everyone who is in your life. You never know when their tracks will come to an end. You never know when your roller coaster will run out of track either. Because in these stories that we share with one another it is almost never what was there but usually who. I don't care what Forrest Gump's mama said...there are no freaking chocolates in my life only roller coasters. Who's on yours?


The end.