a little bit on perspective...

So, I started this year, my last in college, with the unspoken plan of not passing things up. Obviously, I can be a surprisingly unmotivated person at times, so that not passing anything up thing doesn't quite work all the time, but 60% of the time... its worked every time.

Anyways, with that goal in mind, I've been pretty proud of how I've kept it up. And I can honestly say that I've been able to do some pretty rad things this year. Some were really grandiose, like going to Las Vegas for Tommy's Birthday, Allie's Birthday, the Wildcat's Bowl Appearance, and for Laura's Birthday. And some have been on a smaller scale, like Fuku Sunday night or golfing with Cori and her golf friends.

So I've been living my life with this outlook, that I'm going to jump at every opportunity to make my senior year SICK. But the basis of this plan is the fact that I've been blessed to have enough insurance (both medical and financial) to just say yes to these opportunities....

Until today.

This afternoon, I found out that my primary insurance will no longer cover me... I'm too old. I mean I know that I've been saying that 22 is super-old.. but today, my fears were confirmed-- 22 is over the hill at least its over the insurance-dependency hill. For probabaly 7 minutes today I thought that I had absolutely no insurance-- scariest 7 minutes of my life. And one of my first thoughts was that my "do anything and everything" plan was compromised. I can't go skydiving or snowboarding anymore.. dag.

During that 7 minutes I looked down at my evil eye bracelets and thought to myself-- and to them-- that they had better work or else I'm screwed.

I sure hope I can get this job sometime soon. And by this job, I mean any job with benefits- so I can do super cool and dangerous things.

Another thing that came from this "you're no longer covered by our insurance so don't try to visit your doctor or get medical care of any kind" situation, was that it kinda put things in perspective. I had all these plans for what I was going to get the insurance company to pay for before May 6, like a couple more doctor's visits, a whole bunch of contacts to stock up, I was even going to get to the dentist to get this wisdom tooth looked at (I'm 22 and now my wisdom teeth are coming in... fine- not normal, but fine) but all that was thwarted today.

Granted, its was all silly little things that I really didn't need to do... but it makes you think... what do you have planned to do before you get kicked off... (I'm trying to think of an appropriate and witty relation here ... this may come out wrong)... Life's Insurance? or Blue Cross- Blue Planet? ha.

And thus, we come right back around to the beginning of this post. The only way I can think to solve that problem is by taking opportunities that come your way: jump at weird random activities, stay out too late to hang out with people you care for or even that you don't know, and figure out the not so important stuff later... like homework or bills... or careers.

So there's that. A little bit on perspective. From my perspective.