** The Life I Live **
So, in the spirit of constant reiteration -> We all know, I have always said, I kind of lived my life backwards a touch. Barring talking about school and college:
The 20's – Mrs. Married
I got married right at 20 and did the whole married thing. Family visits, house buying, travelling the world, nesting. Big rock on my finger, charities, businesses, church events, honeymoons, vacations, solid careers, meet and greet celebrities and being in the limelight, cut my long hair short and wore business suits for respect purposes! what bliss.. My 20’s – what a wonderful time to be young – gain weight and not care. Just have fun with my soul-mate and love the world I live in. Smile every day and be settled. 
I got married right at 20 and did the whole married thing. Family visits, house buying, travelling the world, nesting. Big rock on my finger, charities, businesses, church events, honeymoons, vacations, solid careers, meet and greet celebrities and being in the limelight, cut my long hair short and wore business suits for respect purposes! what bliss.. My 20’s – what a wonderful time to be young – gain weight and not care. Just have fun with my soul-mate and love the world I live in. Smile every day and be settled. 
To sum it up – my 20’s were what people generally work towards and gain in their late 30s / 40’s – money, houses, cars, investments, careers and the stability of family, friends and bbqs. J
The 30’s – Ms College girl
I didn’t ACTUALLY go to College in my 30’s – I finished College in my 20’s, but I just equate my lifestyle to that of a college kid in some way: I moved to another country – lost A LOT of weight – grew my hair really long, worked out and gave myself the treat of a cute little body, wearing cute tiny little outfits etc. . lived in a little bachelor pad, adopted a turtle. Made some crazy friends. I felt in my 30's that I was finally sane and my body was at its best - skin, hair - everything... Hopped the bar scene and the club scene, Happy hour cocktails etc. was all very new to me since I never did that as a teen nor in my 20's. Dancing the night away – not working, waking up at 10am going to the movies, eating pretzels, playing in the snow and basically being uber care-free. "Starring" in movies as an extra, hanging out with teens and giggling at ridiculous things at 12am, meeting more celebrities all over the world, travelling the world on a whim and no responsibilities whatsoever - all that Jazz.
The 40’s à Things to come.
And now I am nearing my 40’s and I am starting to think what will it be? (Yes, my 30’s are by NO means done – I have a a few years yet to go).On my road to this thing called my 40's – I imagine what it will "look" like in my minds' eye.. Is 40 old? am I getting "old" and what are the "expectations" that people will have of me when I have a new box to check on forms?
Well, I for one, I plan to reinvent myself again –>
I am on a determined, resolved race to retain my youth by clean living, hitting this body into hardcore submission by hard work, sweat, water, vitamins, green stuff and the best products money can buy!! I am in the process of not just losing weight and getting a cute figure.. I am on a muscle mission to get the hottest, healthiest body I can have!!. I am going to throw caution to the wind and be one of those Kim Catrall, Sophia Vergara, Halle Berry kind of 40-somethings! Muscle tone, short skirts, tight jeans – I’m entering my prime baby! Watch out world!
I know one thing, I am going to start out strong – I am planning a mother of a party first of all. A red carpet event bar none!
June 17th 2015 – mark your calendars!! The whole world will be there.
June 17th 2015 – mark your calendars!! The whole world will be there.
Some goals on the journey:
1. Get my body working like a well-oiled machine – I’m not just talking hot – I mean healthy , fit and toned like never before
2. Find some closure – and closed it!
3. Make some new friends – you know,. The GOOD ones. The “for- life” ones and ditch the ones that drain me or have no interest
4. Find a new direction and stop being so cautious about everything – be a little wilder
5. Get involved!!! And Make even more of a difference than before. Leave a HUGE footprint
6. Live out loud.. No more quiet little Miss in the background..
7. Make and save some serious bucks – to give, to eat and to see the world even more..
(oh and to adorn myself with all things fabulous)
What more can one ask for.. The world was made complete on June 17th, 1975 (no I am not being conceited – just stating facts LOL – my own facts in my own head) – when I arrived.. being all fat and cute.. the world has been on this crazy journey with me – called "MY LIFE" eversince..
I have given a lot back.. I have been through a lot.. and its only just beginning.. watch this world become different in the next 10 years. ** WATCH!!!! **
I have given a lot back.. I have been through a lot.. and its only just beginning.. watch this world become different in the next 10 years. ** WATCH!!!! **
Now, obviously I’m not saying I am going to WAIT till I am 40 to do all this – I am in the process right now.. My point is, by the time MY next decade rolls around.. I will have turned back time on my face and body and added some more fun, experiences, passion and love into my life!
I am excited about the present and about the future.. How I am just becoming better – more Delise..
More ME that I ever dreamed. Thus far I have completely had a wild, crazy and wonderful life – I have lived out most of my dreams and goals.. and now I have some new ones..
The rest of my life is going to be the best of my life – more than I can ever imagine. And I am going to look so good doing it.
I look at myself and my dreams as if it were a person and I say passionately:
“As all things are filled with my soul
you emerge from the things, filled with my soul.
You are like my soul, a butterfly of dream”
Khalil Gibran says of time:
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
And is not time even as love is, undivided and placeless?
But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
And is not time even as love is, undivided and placeless?
But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
Just saying…
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