Keep your head up, let your hair down

6 months.  That's half a year. 182 days. 4368 hours. 262080 minutes. 15724800 seconds of so many fleeting moments, most of which I can't even remember.  It's amazing how time passes and we just keep going, going, going. 4368 hours ago I never would have thought I would be where I am today, sitting in an office at Carnegie Mellon University--a top University in our country. Really?! 182 days ago I would not have thought I would be making a daily commute into a city, I have looked at for years, but only begun to know.  The more I think about it, the more life amazes me with the way it works--so unpredictable, so out of control.

My commute into Oakland is one of my favorite times of my M-T-W days of the week.  I feel energized as I'm sipping my home-made drip coffee, my music is blaring and usually the sun in beating down on my car as it is still in transit to it's noon peak in the sky.  During that 45 minute span of time, it feels like my mind is racing from thought to thought, idea to idea.  Sometimes I wish I had a recorder in my car so I could just have a session of 'word vomit' and see what comes out of it.  I'm convinced I would create some profound quote or perhaps even write a song that would be some fantastic hit, but alas, I have no recorder so the thoughts just stay in my crazy mind and are eventually lost once I get into my windowless, ac-less office.  Something I have discovered and I hold onto during my commute each morning, is the power of a song.  I have a few songs that I play daily in a specific order because they just make me SO HAPPY!

So what I leave you with today is this:  when all else fails, put a smile of your face, listen to a good song and remember, there is always 'rainbows after rain'.

Have a good day :)