Is getting off always a good thing?
I'm getting a massage at my Vietnamese nail salon. Nothing romantic about it. It is very noisy and the little room we are in doesn't even have walls that go all the way to the ceiling and the door opens right there at the pedicure station. The little old Asian lady who is giving my massage is very sweet and REALLY good at giving a massage. I'm happy because talent at these prices is hard to find. So, I am face up and she is working my lower abdomen and upper thigh area. It feels so good! She is spending a lot of time in this area and I am thinking to myself that she must be doing some ancient ritual for female health or something because she is just going and going on in the same area. Then she asks me in her broken English if I would like to remove my underwear. I say, "No thanks. Just work around them." She says, "Oh but they are going to get oil all over them." I am now getting a little uncomfortable because I am not sure what her intent is. I tell her that I'd rather leave them on and she gets back to what she is doing. Did i mention that it feels REALLY GOOD? Anyway, a few minutes later, much to my surprise her oiled up hand is down my pants and there is no question about her intent! It happened so fast and it was so unexpected but her fingers were so talented that I had an orgasm right then and there. I didn't know what to do. I didn't ask for this or really even want it. Am I supposed to pay extra now? Can I ever come back for just a regular massage? Now she gets very flirty with me. Saying that she wants to go out dancing with me and let's exchange phone numbers. I quickly get dressed and throw open the door stepping right our into a row of ladies with their feet soaking.
I was kind of embarrassed about the whole thing and a little dissapointed because now I had give up a really good massage therapist.
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Living in the moment
It has been said that if you don't study the past your future is doomed. But I say, "LIVE TODAY". Now it is hard to stay in the present with the 24 hour news stations always available to warn you of the future and friends who constantly lament about the past, but I'm working on it.
My dad always told me not to worry about the future. He said that the worst things that could possibly happen very rarely ever do, and that my energy is better spent enjoying what IS rather that trying to change what WAS or worrying about what WILL BE. Don’t be in a rush to grow up and live in the future. We all are going to get there at the same time no matter how hard you try to beat everyone else on the road there. He also told me that everything always works out for the best. He said if it isn’t the best yet, then it is just not finished.
This is not to say that I don’t keep a calendar, or schedule my daily activities. But this is not real future planning. These are just organizational tools used to get the most out of my time so I can enjoy it to the fullest.
As difficult as it may be, I try to live each day as if it were my last. Yet, at the same time, hold on to the thought that I might have much more time left before I depart. And so, I better make today count without causing consequences that might make future todays not so bright.
I don’t ruin today just so I can have a better tomorrow. I’ve done that before and all I have to show for it are a lot of missed yesterdays. I used to sacrifice today so I would have more tomorrow, and I have to tell you, that I have no more now than I would have if I had never given up the joy of those days. So now I am just committed to doing the best that I can each day, trying never to put off until tomorrow what I can do now, but never doing now what may never need to be done. When faced with a decision I remember the wise words of Dad. When I asked my dad what choice I should make, he always said that “It doesn’t matter which way you go. Both directions will take you to the right place". When I was a kid this kind of confused me. How could that be, that no matter what my decision was that it would all work out for the best in the end? As I grew though, I saw the results of this way of living and I understand now that it is true. No matter which way you go you will always get to where you are going.
So, like breathing I let the future take care of itself as I go about living my life minute by glorious minute.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow doesn’t exist, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present."
Please make the most of today. Take a chance on living life to the fullest. You know that it is the right decision. It always is.
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Name: Heather
"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life" - George Burns
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