have a love affair with your life.

Today, my little wise yoga guru friend Brittany, shared with me something her yoga instructor had said to her class: What if you could have a love affair with your life? As soon as Britt spoke these words my mind sparked and began to deconstruct that question. What did her teacher mean by this? Maybe she meant for me to not analyze and think about it too much but to just do it. Live it. Breathe it. Why can't life just be one big, great love affair? As Brittany said it is so much easier to surround ourselves with negativity. We can't seem to get away from it! It's so simple to complain, or beg the question, "Why me?" to drag others down and even drag ourselves down. I mean don't get me wrong, I know everyone has bad days and hard times and that's okay too, but don't let it take over. I can at times be a pessimist, but I think that I was a lot worse and vowed to myself to get better even by doing little things everyday and I think it has been working. But being more of an optimist isn't the only way, I think, to have a love affair with life. I think you need to take time to enjoy the little things, whether it's spending time with friends, family, by yourself, your dog, just sitting still for five minutes or in the wise words of Emma Stone "eating the damn red velvet cupcake." Enjoy things, since as I know, it is so easy to rush through a day, a week, a month even whole years can fly by (hello, college where did you go?) I may sound like some free-loving hippie right now but life is short! And these wise words from Brittany's yoga instructor really got me thinking today. Do what you love, make it something exciting, different, fun and challenging all at the same time. Go out and see where your love affair takes you.