Poop Shute

Day of Days

I had a conversation recently about the concept of my "ideal day."

The idea is you write out a description of what the best day of your life would be like. You plan out every little detail of what the day would be like if you had complete control over it all and money is no issue. You pick and choose everything that you would do, and everything that you would have down to any minute detail that you deem important enough to be mentioned. You write the whole thing out and then make that your aim for everyday.

We all know that every single day won't live up to the ideal. We are not in complete control of our days sometimes. Many days other factors push us into directions we did not plan on, and would not call ideal. BUT the goal is to make each and every day you live as close as you can manage to the ideal. And why not? Why bother living life at all if you're not striving for your ideal every time you get out of bed?

I like it.

It's something I've been kicking around in my head for the past few days. Probably should be popping up in my meditations, but oddly enough has not yet. But to be totally honest my meditating skills are rough at best. I need more practice. Focusing and quieting the mind is more difficult than most people think.

Maybe one day soon I will write a post entitled My Ideal Day. But not yet. There are too many variables that I'm kicking around to define that day yet.

I'll tell you this much, it starts by waking up next to the love of my life and enjoying a lovely session of Wake-Up Sex, followed by a shower that follows a strict No Self-Soaping Rule that will be posted as a metal sign on the bathroom wall.

Then a light breakfast of veggie egg-white omelettes, whole wheat toast, (slathered in homemade apple butter, of course) cottage cheese with fresh fruit and green tea.

That's about as far as I've gotten. It's also light on the details though. Like where do I wake up? A lovely cliffside house overlooking my own private beach? A huge luxury penthouse apartment in New York? And what about the pets that wake up at our feet? Like Henry and Guinness and the half St Bernard half Rotty mix that I spoil and named Charlie Mack (the name comes from a song that Will Smith wrote as The Fresh Prince about his close friend and bodyguard... don't judge me, it's a fun song).

Now I'm meandering. I will write more about it when I have all that ironed out.

Speaking of Charlie Mack, have I posted my Charlie Mack story on here before? When I literally ran headlong into him and DJ Jazzy Jeff in London? Anyone remember? If I haven't, let me know, because it's a good story.

COMMENTS:

I'd say you have a pretty good start there...ideal, if I may. But I sure hope you've got a ginormous bed with the menagerie you plan on taking to bed with you
Lenka 01.31.07 - 8:32 pm

California King, of course!
Joey 02.01.07 - 2:36 am

HA, I always knew you were jealous of my Cal King!
Kim 02.01.07 - 10:19 pm

You could always just push two big beds together.....
AmBam 02.02.07 - 12:47 am

Been there, AmBam. It's unpleasant at the very least. Especially when the bed is on wheels
Crohn 02.02.07 - 12:09 pm

The only problem I have with this is that my best days have been fly by the seat of your pants kind of days. You wake up when you wake up and you do whatever you do with whoever you're with. Don't get me wrong, you know I'm a detail oriented planner, but the days that are open to whatever comes next are incomparable.
Jessica 02.02.07 - 11:50 pm

Very true, Jess, I agree wholeheartedly, but I think the exercise still works with that attitude as well.
The idea isn't that you are writing a rigid plan that must be followed in order for your day to be perfect, at least that is not how I see it. I see it as writing a very detailed short story that you can use as a snapshot for the type of life you want to lead in general. This way you've got a very clear and very real-to-you set of goals.
You dig?
Joey 02.04.07 - 3:53 am

Damn it, after I hit ENTER, I came up with more to say.
Also, in your personal story of your perfect day you could write that into it. Write into it that you have large windows of time that are available for "seat of the pants" time, but maybe allow yourself room to play with it on paper. You know, like throw down some suggestions of what that time might be spent doing that you enjoy. You could even make a long list of possible activities that might or might not occur on your perfect day.
The key, as I see it, was that you are very clear and specific about the things that are important to you. For me, as you saw, a romantic relationship is important. A healthy breakfast is important. Finding out that stuff and defining it on paper for yourself makes it one step closer to reality.
I'm rambling. Sorry. I just think this exercise has so much potential.
Joey 02.04.07 - 4:00 am

Perhaps once you finish your "ideal day" and start making decisions based on whether or not they fit into the scope of it, you'll realize life isn't as hard as you make it sometimes. Just my thoughts...because like you, I think the exercise is phenomenal...which makes sense since I gave you the idea.
Lenka 02.05.07 - 5:01 pm

Now that you have finally figured out the crap in your head and you're happy again...hopefully you will be able to add new things to your ideal day...but keep the Cal King thing...that's a staple. I still think you should keep one kitten since you'll have room for it in bed.
Kim 02.06.07 - 5:09 pm