"Time Makes You Bolder/Children Get Older & I'm Getting Older Too"

A mickey house watch is the key to success. Do you have one? I had one. My mother got it for me. When I was little and learning to tell time, my parents always got me watches. My parents are lovers of Swatches. Those are swiss watches that display beauty in the simpelist of ways. I never liked swatches. The bands were either too boring or too babyish. It was a grey band or one with different kind of monkeys on it. I didn't even enjoy animals as a child. I got my mickey mouse probably around the second grade. It had a red leather band, gold trim, and inside was mickey. As a twenty first century kid, I didn't wear it much. It was easier to tell time on the digital microwave or a computer screen. But today after hearing words of wisdom from the young and the old, I remembered my mickey mouse watch and wondered if it played a part in making me the person I am today.

It was graduation sunday at church today. The preacher focused on the graduates and preached on the paths that they will take and used verses that speak of inspiration and new beginnings. He then allowed the audience to share what they wish they would have known when they were 18, and to give tips of wisdom for the graduates. Four people mentioned the importance of a mickey mouse watch. Some said it had to do with looking down at it and always remembering it's okay to be goofy and have a little fun. Some talked about how it was super expensive in their day and since it was the invention of their generation it will always have a special place in their heart. I couldn't help but notice that the people with the mickey mouse watches were all the most successful people in the church. The paster joked about how this Mickey Mouse watch thing was starting to sound cult-like, but it really made me wonder. I finished my first year of college with a 4.0 gpa. I've had nothing but A's my entire year. Yes, I worked really hard that whole time, but maybe my mickey mouse watch played a little part in that success. I may not believe in the tooth fairy or magic tricks anymore, but I think they're on to something with this Mickey Mouse watch thing.

One word of advice that really stuck out to me was a woman who got up and said something along the lines of "my advice to you is to enjoy where you are right now. I remember when I was eighteen I couldn't wait to be 21, then I couldn't wait to get a boyfriend, then I couldn't wait to be engaged, then I couldn't wait to be married etc. " She said she wishes she could have enjoyed the different phases of her life instead of always wanting to be somewhere else in her life. I have that symptom. For some reason, i've always thought the best part of your life would be 30. When you've hopefully achieved a degree, found a stable job of your dreams, fell in love, and started a family. Kim Kardashian is the one that taught me it doesn't always happen that way. When she turned 30 she went all out trying to get the fairytale she dreamed of with Kris Humphries, but the number didn't make it magical and give her what she was looking for.

Justin biebers line in That Power also comes to mind, "I'm alive..I'm alive..I'm alive.../and i'm loving every second, minute, hour, bigger, better, stronger power". Yes, I realize it's not the most beautiful line ever written in music, but it's another example of enjoying the now. Every single second is a blessing, and it should be spent enjoying yourself. So instead of daydreaming about whatever phase in next in your life, take some time to contemplate all that it is now and what it could be. I've learned that chasing things never makes them easier to grasp. When you let go and let life lead you, nothing but good will come. And the true secret is, it's better then whatever you had thought it could be. Plus, a mickey mouse watch helps.

Song of the day : That Power - Justin Bieber and Will.I.am

Quote of the day : “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Rosevelt