Fabulous & Fascinated

“The world fascinates me.” – Andy Warhol

My attention was instantly captured when I read this quote hanging on the wall of Washington D.C.’s Third Edition. It’s true you, know. The world and the lives we live here are quite intriguing. Weather that permits shorts and sandals Monday, requires pea coats and scarves Tuesday, followed by umbrellas and rain boots Wednesday, laying out in a bikini Thursday, building a snow man Friday, an overcast, cloudy movie day Saturday, and finally a beautiful day for a pic-nic Sunday.
Unexpected. Unpredictable. Unexplainable.

Much like the up’s and down’s of the even more chaotic ride we call life. From happy to hating, from crying to rejoicing, from calling it quits to falling in love, from defeated to conquering, from positive to uncertain. It’s never ending. The only certainty is uncertainty. The only thing sure is change.

And so, rather than resisting it, we learn to embrace change.

Flat tires. Broken wheels. Missed flights. Plane reroutes. Burned restaurants. Missed reservations. A city water line break. They can’t be prevented and they can’t be changed. Sometimes, while living, life gets in the way. We can cry or we can curse, but the result will be exactly the same if we smile, or laugh about it. And so the story we goes, we “dance like nobody’s watching and love like we’ve never been hurt.”