Day 76: First Dates 4 Life

You ever see that movie, 50 First Dates? I didn't like it. I'm not a fan of movies with plots of recurring plots.

On first dates we are excited and eager to learn and see how things go. To learn about our date. To see how we present ourselves - and thus feel about ourselves. To understand how we act and connect in relation to another person and a new situation.

Everything about first dates is new. Even we are new, in a sense. 

We are presenting ourselves to a new person - we are showing who we are in a new time, and hopefully, in a new way than we have before.

This idea of first dates for life is not about finding a partner or coming off a certain way. It is about adopting the first date mindset for all of life.

Dates are great - but what about all of the other days of our lives?! There is always so much going on, so much to see, learn, observe and contemplate.

What if we were as eager and excited to really live in the world around us as we are to be in the moment in a date?

Maybe one day life takes on the form of a not so great date, such as eavesdropped over margaritas with my sister and recorded below:

Woman 1:  I mean he was a nice guy and all, but it just wasn't clicking. 

Woman 2:  What did you guys end up doing?

Woman 1:  . . . We went to an escape room . . .

Woman 2:  Did you at least escape?

Woman 1: No!

Or maybe a different day, life channels this VERY random date snippet - also eavesdropped over margaritas with my sister:

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Woman on date:   "Do you still drink a lot of milk?
                               -- I have a twin sister..."

[no pause for her date's answer or perceptible segue to the new topic]

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The point I'm getting at is, you never know what's going to come. But you've got to be paying attention to your date [life] so you don't miss the good stuff! When you do, you give every day the opportunity to be exciting, energizing, and just the right amount of nerve provoking.