“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”
~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also RisesOnly a handful of very extraordinary people will be bullfighters. The rest of us have to accept that we never will. The trick is learning to live with that knowledge.
Advice from the Cupcake
I visited my little mom in the nursing home and asked her if she had advice for my daughter Hannah, who will be a missionary in Korea, my daughter Skyler, who just graduated from college, and my son Dane, who is studying screenwriting in NYC.
“Let me think,” she said, as she lifted her chin and narrowed her eyes, Yoda-style. “Yes. Tell them: jump in with all four, and then figure it out as you figure it out.” Then she added, “And don’t miss the first jump. Some people wait and wait and wait, and then it’s over.”
BAM. She may weigh 90 pounds and be a prisoner in her own body, but she’s still got it. Great advice.
My grandmother. Cupcake.