Love Can Touch Us One Time

..and last for a life time.

OK, enough sappy Celine Dion lyrics. I don't want anyone to think I've lost my sass ;-)

But, today's quote IS sappy. And it's from Titanic. It's incredibly relevant today because I made a sinking boat analogy yesterday in a debate with a friend of mine on whether or not I should be upset about something that happened at work on Monday. The analogy I made is this:

If you think of yourself as a ship and you've got four crew members assigned to four life boats who are responsible for launching to get everyone off safely in the event of a crisis. Each one of those lifeboats represents a critical part of your life: Health, Career, Friends & Family, Love. Whenever there's a crisis in the health area, I will send maybe 2 crew members to that lifeboat. If it's a friend's/family crisis - I'll send 2 at first and maybe a third. If it's career, I will send all four crew members and probably the captain and I'll even throw in the cook. If it's my love life? Not only will I leave that one crew member there unassisted, I'll actually let them take a lunch.

I realized how totally screwed up that is and despite the fact I probably need to send four crew members to the career boat right now, I'm not. I'm done because my career has been by and far the most successful venture. I have accomplished so much with so little and that was due to incredible dedication and loyalty to my work and my identity as a career woman. If I put that energy into my health and physical fitness, I'd have been an olympian.

So my priorities have changed because I realized the person I keep throwing a life boat out for, isn't actually worth saving. Corporate America drilled out of me the passionate, "sassy", fun-loving, daring, adventurous, argue-about-anything-to-the-death girl! This is why I've gotten all up into journaling more, reading more, working out, dancing and dumping bad mojo like a Dave Matthews bus on the Michigan Avenue bridge.

So here's the quote..

"They've got you trapped Rose and you're gonna die if you don't break free. Maybe not right away because your strong but sooner or later that fire that I love about you Rose, that fire is gonna burn out." -Jack Dawson, Titanic

..And come on, isn't the part of Titanic we loved the most was that in the end she lived..truly, really lived.