Live life fully while you're here.
Experience everything.
Take care of yourself and your friends.
Have fun, be crazy, be weird.
Go out and screw up!
You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.
Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes:
find the cause of your problem and eliminate it.
Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human!!
I have learned over the past couple of weeks what it means to live life to the fullest. Here I have been up one day and down the next; crying in an instant and then happy as a clam at other times. I know that it doesn't matter what you go thru in life, we are all going to have those times/moments but you know at the end of the day each experience teaches you something.
Here I have been dwelling on the past and pushed aside the potential people who could be my future. For once, I took a chance on someone and I have to say I am pretty pleased. I have opened myself up to people who I wouldnt normally and have made some incredibly amazing new friends. I like going out and having a drink just as much as I like staying in. I like being around people who have no care in the world but to be happy and live each day like it's their last. It has opened my eyes to the possibilities of what stands in front of me. I know I am not perfect and you would be silly to think that you were but each and every one of us holds something special about ourselves that brightens each room that we walk into. That uplifts someone even when we dont realize the impact that we have on their lives at that time.
I am a floater at WFUBMC, which means I am usually never on the same floor consecutively. I fill in holes when others call out. I get the opportunity to work several different units in the hospital and get to gain great experience in each specialty. When patients thank me for my help each day, it is normally followed with a "will you be here in the morning/evening? (whichever shift I'm working that day)" and my response is usually well I dont know and give them my job description. Under most circumstances, I do not see these patients again because they are usually gone before I am needed on the floor again.So it came as a bit of a shock when I came back to the same floor that I worked Saturday (dayshift) on Tuesday (nighshift) and had the same patients from the prior shift.
Saturday was one of my patient's birthday. I made sure to be extra cheery with him through out the day which included singing him Happy Birthday when I woke him up and singing it to him once more right before I left. We talked through out the day and I shared that even though it wasnt my birthday Saturday but Monday, I would be busy Monday and unable to celebrate so I would celebrate on his birthday if he was willing to share. We laughed and it was our ongoing joke for the afternoon. Well tonight when I came in and I went in to say hello both him and his wife met me with a big smile and said HAPPY BIRTHDAY! At this point they sang to me and said even though my birthday was Monday they wanted me to know how much they appreciated me and would sing to me anyways and handed me a box of chocolate covered cherries as a birthday gift. They continued to tell me how they knew that I may not return before his discharge from the hospital but just in case I did they wanted me to know that because I made his birthday so special while he was stuck in the hospital bed that they too wanted to make mine special. She continued with, "Your smile was so contagious that day, there is no way we couldnt let you know just how much we appreciate you!" I told them thank you and I didnt feel like I could accept them but I appreciated the thought but that was not what they wanted to hear! They made sure I walked out with those cherries. I walked out of that room with tears in my eyes.
The fact that they pointed out that my smile was that contagious that I made their day Saturday just made me feel about 10 feet tall. The fact that I made his day just made my night! I did not realize just how much my attitude affected them that day. I know I've come to work in bad moods before so it made me wonder do I pull people down when I am down? Well if I do then I dont want to anymore. I want to be that little ray of sunshine that can light up a room anytime I walk in. I want to be the reason, if for nothing else, people smile for just an instant. Whether I make you smile, you're laughing at my stupidity, or just smiling because you are putting me down... well at least you do it with a smile on your face. I think the best part of all of it was the fact of why I was smiling so much on Saturday. It had A LOT to do with my company from Friday night that would also be my company for my Saturday night birthday festivities. Friday I got to go on a date with an incredible man. My friend kinda went MIA, we were going to set up his friend with mine. So he ended up 3rd wheel and he felt awkward at 1st but he was a pretty great guy himself and loosened up before too long. The 3 of us had an awesome time so by Saturday it only got better but I got to introduce him to a different friend of mine and they seemed to hit it off. As I said in other posts though, my fella is leaving for Hawaii and then Afghanistan so as of this morning I will not be able to seem him til June. Just when we are hitting off things so well. We have decided though that we will be able to keep in contact via telephone throughout his time in Hawaii and we can skype whenever he is in Afghanistan plus some time while he's in Hawaii too! So we have our 1st skype date this weekend! :) Is it weird to look forward to a skype session? hahah
I feel like things are just falling into place. I am no where near where I thought I would be but I am happy seeing how far I've come. I may not have the husband, the family, the house, the car, or the boat; but I have great family and friends that stand beside me whenever I need them most, a life to be thankful for, and most of all a future to live to the fullest. I have already experienced some amazing things with some amazing people this year and I cannot wait to see how the rest of the year unfolds. I've even added a trip to Colorado to my list of places to go this year. I've always wanted to ski in CO and it seems as if this will be the year for it. Still looking forward to a trip to Vegas even though it may not go as planned because Tori, after long awaiting this time, is on her way to the Navy in April with an anticipated graduation in June (our Vegas trip month). So instead of Vegas, I will be going to see my friend take the next step of her life, which I cannot be more excited for!!
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