First Time or the Last?

"Look at things like it's the first time you're seeing them or like the last time you'll ever see them again."

After a scare a year ago, last summer, when it was questionable whether I'd have my normal vision ever again, I really take that quote to heart now.  But shouldn't having a wide-eyed enthusiasm for even the smallest wonders, be the way we look at things everyday, anyway?

I remember the first time I saw the ocean.  I was a young girl and it touched me in such a profound way - it's still the most gorgeous sight I know.  And I'll never forget the look on my husband's face when he held our first-born..Big tough-guy football coach with the most tender look on his face.... Dad held the baby like a football, but that look...I'll never forget it.  Hard to imagine... life, without sight.

Don't know about you, but I'm thinking, as we get older, we get kind of complacent...many times, just going thru the motions of our daily lives.    Not paying attention to all the beauty around us...I guess because we've seen so much in our lifetimes... What's there to get excited about?

But after the events of last summer, when I didn't know how much I would ever see - the way I've seen for years - I hope that I'm looking at, and appreciating, things, people, places more fully now.   I hope to always take it all in...like it's the first time I'm seeing something or the last...because you don't know.....