The Bucket List

The movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman came out a week ago. I'm very intrigued, but tend to wait for movies to come to my livingroom where I can curl up in a warm woobie and eat my own popcorn (and hit pause to pee.)

The two men share a hospital room. Nicholson is the owner/operator of hospitals and Freeman is a mechanic. Freeman makes a "Bucket List" of all the things he wanted to do before he kicked the bucket. Throughout the film, the unlikely pair accomplishes adventures together and strikes item after item off the list. It was the end of the trailer that struck me. Freeman asks Nicholson to do one last thing for him. "Find the joy in your life."

Find the joy. The joy that already exists. The joy that is unseen in this moment for whatever reason... find it.

We all have that opportunity, in each minute. No matter how disgusted we are with the current plight of our minute, hour, day, or surroundings, whatever. We can find the joy in our breath, our heartbeat, the way we're greeted by a child, the miracle of the child in the first place.

A wise man recently told me, "when all is lost... when all you have is the alley you're sleeping in, when you look up, there's nothing left to see but beauty."

Joy. Find yours.