Animated

I get quite animated about things. My voice will rise as my passion and excitement for things increase. People confuse it for anger or frustration. It is not, it is passion and animation. I get animated about food. I love food. I love to cook (as long as I don't have to clean up, I will cook all day long) and I love to eat what I or anyone, well not ANYONE, cook. I like to try different things as long as no lima beans or red beets are involved (they are abhorrent), I am good. Today we had calamari. I love calamari. The tubular ones look all right (cause you can't really tell what they are) but the baby squid, all coated and deep fried still look like baby squid. It takes a leap of faith to put that in your mouth initially. I have had really bad calamari. I have decided that the success of the calamari depends on the breading or the coating you put on it and the oil in which it is cooked. That's kind of like life. We can be horrible or good, it depends on our coating, i.e., those with who we associate and the decision we make. It's hard to make decisions sometimes. If there are two "right" choices, which one do I make? Does it matter? Which one is better? I don't know the answers to those but I do know we have to make decisions and when I do, I can get animated about them. I look at the decisions my kids have made and are making. Whom to marry, where to go to school, should I do a sport, where to live, where to work, what to do. They are faced with a variety of choices, most good, but decisions to make nonetheless. I am proud of what they have done up until now for the most part. Am I perfect? Not hardly, ask anyone. I do strive to get better every day and sometimes fall short of the mark but I do try to learn from my mistakes. Where is this all going today? It comes down to being animated and living with decisions. When we make a decision, support it and espouse it but if we are showed the incorrectnes of our decision, accept it (that's the hardest thing for me). Show some passion. Be excited and animated about what we do. I know I am. Life is so filled with spices and oil that we can either get burned with or prepared and cooked correctly. Sometimes both things happen but that is what makes life so animated: we don't always know how things are going to turn out but we do have to keep moving forward and enjoy the decision-making process. I love life and being part of the process here!