Been thinking about posting for a while, and decided to after seeing my friend's blogs. (thanks instantoats!)

Always been meaning to keep a diary, but am too lazy to do so. Since i spend so much time on the internet, or at my computer, figured this might be an easier way to put my rambling, and sometimes frenetic thoughts down.

Been thinking a lot about life lately. What I want out of it, what we all want out of life. What makes life happy? What makes someone's life fulfilling? The age old answers come to mind... money, glory, power, sex. Or is it something more subtle, something that can't easily be captured in one or two words or pictures. Waking up and knowing you have the whole day free. Knowing that you have people who love you, and that you have people you love. Being able to lie down and gaze up at a sunny sky as the clouds go by.

I believe happiness comes from squeezing every last drop out of life. Knowing that you've not wasted one single moment. Knowing that when someone looks at your tombstone, he or she will say, "wow, that person really lived life to the fullest". I've told a lot of my friends this, but the words from "Gallileo" by the Indigo Girls really capture a lot of how I feel about life in general.

"How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of night vision
King of insight"