One Thing

Have you ever heard a new song for the first time and then listened to it over and over?  My roommates and sister can all attest that when I hear a song for the first time and like it, I play it over and over.  I sing it, dance to it, annoy people with it and think about it.  That lasts for about two weeks until I find a new song to groove out to.  One of my latest and greatest songs is "One Thing" by Finger Eleven. The chorus goes something like this:

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn't that be something?

The song got me thinking.  What one thing would I be willing to trade away everything for?  All my desires, dreams and possessions?  And how amazing would that one thing be if I spent all my time on it?  If I threw all my energies, creative, heart and soul into it?

I don't know if I have the answers but I ran into this verse while reading Psalms 27 last week.  Could this be it?

 

   I'm asking God for one thing,
      only one thing:
   To live with him in his house
      my whole life long. 

Now wouldn't that be something?  

Tristinn's Travelations....

Life Lessons learned by going to a new space and embracing it.  I haven't blogged in a while because quite frankly, I haven't been doing a lot of traveling.  However I've recently decided that traveling isn't necessarily a spatial thing.  Traveling can happen in your heart or mind or even in time.  It's the time traveling that's the most interesting, the most bizarre, the one we all experience.  

As graduation approaches and my college days come to a close, it's the time traveling that has absorbed my focus and my thoughts. Here are my recent clash-collisions with time:

• I've always been an early to bed person as compared to others.  Now, my friends want to go to bed at 11:00 on a Saturday Night too!
• Senior high school students feel like the eighth graders did when I was a high school senior.
• Enough time has passed that the "younger" generation has never experienced the technology that I did i.e. tape recorders, beepers, the dial-up song..
• I'm old enough that the word "like" kills me a little inside.

Here are what 8th graders look like

And then there are some more serious ones...

Winners!

• Time Travel has no required equipment but no matter how experienced of a traveler you are, you'll never remember or have all the stuff you need.
• Time dims even the brightest of memories.
• Where you go is not as important as who you travel with.  So travel with WINNERS!!

Friends!

Time Travel is weird because you can never go back to the places you've been, nor will you ever run out of new places to experience.  There's an endless supply of time to explore, an endless ocean of moments to absorb.   And even when I settle down and stop traveling, other will continue to experience this limitlessness of time travel.