Last night was the first night since I was a little girl that I stayed up all night and was awake to see the sunrise. Right before the crack of dawn, life began again. The gas station across the street was already open and full of the daily early birds. It is so different looking at the world with the same eyes as yesterday.
I realized it's not the day you should live by but the moments in the day. You can go through life with one day at a time but before you know it, the days have gone by and life has passed you out. When I wake up in the morning (Or in some cases, the afternoon), my first thought is not what I'm going to do with the day but what I'm going to do right now. There's so much you can learn about life when you keep your eyes open.
Peeking through the blinds this morning and watching the sun rise into the sky, it reminded me of one of my favorite memories with my father. When I was little, I would go with him on the weekends and on an early Saturday morning, we'd wake up, drive to Frackville and sit in the mall parking lot eating McDonald's hotcakes and watching the sun come up over the mountain. Everytime I see a sunrise, I think of that Saturday morning. Good moments that I remember with my father are rare but this is one that I'll never forget. I hope one day you'll see the sun rise and experience it like I did.
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