The Next Best Day of My Life

Someday there will come a time when you'll be able muster all the guts you can muster and throw your worries away off to a place where you can never hear of it again. No bills, deadlines, or people to worry about. For once, life will just be about you.

Imagine getting up in the morning looking ten years younger than you really are without all the wrinkles caused by too much anxiety. The sun gently touches your face that would have perhaps launched a thousand ships. Only happy thoughts swirling inside your head. 

You just wake up on the right side of the bed every single day. And right there and then you decide that you are going to go to some exotic never-heard country no matter what it takes.  You dust off your trunk and start grabbing random clothes from without even considering if you're to face bitter wintry nights or scorching summer days. A few steps more and your loading your camera and all the wires that should come with it. Of course, you won't forget your colorful chunks of pastels and the watercolors that all dried up over the years. I bet you barely remember the day you bought them.

Next thing you know, you’re standing on your front door fixing the crease of your Boho peasant skirt, all smiles with nothing in mind but that boldest plan to just wander, paint, and write. A Eureka moment to set foot anywhere possible, get inspiration in things you see from the usual grind to the never before seen. You dilly dally and kill time people watching in parks and streets, saying, “Hi,” to random tourist blondes or sun-kissed natives.

All day, you’ll write. No minimum words. No limits. No boundaries. No matter how silly. No matter how senseless.

Most days, you’ll paint. Do your thing in every medium you want – oils, watercolors, pastels, gouache, et al. Use boards, paper, canvas – primed, gessoed, ungessoed, or whatever. No rules. No standards. No expectations. For all you care, whatever they call it, your work is ART.

You grin, you look around and in your head without second thoughts, you define that day as the next best day of your life.