What day would you live over and over….
And over and over again.
It’s Groundhog’s Day and this post was inspired by a link at CBCnews where a tweet of mine was featured. If you click — you have to scroll down a ways to see me. The post poses the question…”What day would you live over and over?”
That got me to thinking.
What if today was the day that played over and over for the rest of my earthly days?
Everyday for the rest of my life I’d have oatmeal for breakfast.
Leftover vegetable beef soup for lunch.
I’d spend the day transcribing an interview for an article I’m writing. I’d hear the same words from the same man and type them over and over. I’d hear all the goofy things I said again and again and forever think — why don’t I BE QUIET in these things.
But it was so beautiful, I sat outside behind the house enjoying the sunshine while I listened and typed away.
Everyday at 4:22 p.m. I’d look outside to see this…
And everyday I’d get to run in a new pair shoes.
Now that would be cool. Any runner knows how wonderful that would be.
Then late in the afternoon I’d come to my kitchen door and see this.
This is what it said.
So instead of cleaning my kitchen, every day I’d go to a 6 p.m. kickboxing class for the first time. By day 395, I’d have the routines down.
And I’d dine on takeout pizza for dinner.
(No way I’m messing up my clean kitchen.)
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Back to the original question. What day would you live over and over? Wedding day? Day a child was born? Day you graduated from college against all odds? The day you knew the business you started was going to make it? The first day in the little beach house on the water at St. Simons Island — I somehow managed to afford?
The last one has possibilities.
The best part of this blogtherapy post is that I realized even though I’ve had some great days, I don’t want to redo any of them.
The day I’d like to live over and over is the day I haven’t lived yet.
February 3.
What about you? What day would you relive over and over.
What a great post! I’d have to say I’d live over and over again a day that my kids were in elementary/middle school, maybe a last day of school when spirits were high, the first beach day of the year, when we’d all meet at home and have the first barbecue of summer….oh, and the empty nest was a completely foreign expression. Best days ever. *sniffle*
Julia. Your comment made me think how I love hearing the children’s voices on video when they were young. It would be fun to experience that again.
Nope. I don’t want to relive any days over and over again, either. A spin on the saying, “You don’t know what you’ve got until it is gone.” If you relieve the same wonderful time over and over again – how can you appreciate it? How can you reflect and savor it?
Nope. I’m good with one day at a time – and only once.
That’s such a good point Lenore. We don’t appreciate what we see everyday.
The only day I’d live over again would be the day my daughter, Jeanne, was born. There has been no greater event in my life, thus far.
I definitely have many snapshot memories from each of these days we got our children, Susan. It would be nice to experience it over and over again.
Found this post through #FF on Twitter. SO glad I did because it is the only thing that makes me feel like I did not waste yet another 2 hours (who am I kidding? entire morning) on Twitter.
I knew what my comment was going to be before I got to the end of your post and I got chills when I read your conclusion. It was exactly what I thought. I have had so many blessed and wonderful days in my life, that I would be afraid to pick one for fear of missing something even better.
I’m often told that I am a realist, but your post showed me I have more than a sprinkle of optimism, too. Nice Blogtherapy for us all.
a moment where i taught the twins to appreciate the weather in 2010 is something i dream of reliving some days. the smiles on their faces. them accepting the weather & allowing the weather to accept them.–a time last year when God spoke to me through the wind was the most moving and beautiful moment i have ever lived. certain things like that–make me into the person i am today. i love those moments that replay in my memory and would love to experience them again but i feel content in accepting the days before me. the blessings God can bring me and the moments i can feel, appreciate and praise Him for them is worth living this life.
That was beautiful Katie. Those moments here on earth when God touches us with the divine. To relive then over and over. Like the beloved song says, “a foretaste of glory divine.”