Let's Live the Crap Out of Life

So, I found this quote by Ryan Adams that started with "There's nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls." And I just really liked that idea, one that was actually really well expressed in another of my favourite quotes by Ernest Hemingway:

I just really like the idea of doing everything you do with everything you have, living the crap out of life. So I was looking through some photos over the last 6 years or so, and I was just reminded of how lucky I am and how happy I am with everything I've been able to do so far. So I'm doing this "Love the crap out of everything" type tag I found, which basically is based on times of extreme emotion, you know like, the happiest moment of your life, or the most beautiful thing you've seen, that type of thing. I just thought it was a cool and inspiring tag, to remind myself of how great life is, and to get excited for everything that is still to come. 

THE HAPPIEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN

Hmm, there have been a couple of moments, but the one that comes to mind first and was the most recent, was finding out that I was accepted into medicine. It just came as such a shock and I wanted it more than anything, but really was sure I wouldn't get in, so that was probably one of the happiest days of my life. 

THE MOST EXCITED YOU'VE EVER BEEN

I think probably, this would be either when I was going overseas for the first proper time in grade 6 with my mom and gran. We were going to visit close family in Canada and then to New York and I was suppper excited! The other time I'm thinking of was for my matric dance (senior prom), it was just such a special night! 

My friends and I at the before party for our dance. 

THE MOST NERVOUS YOU'VE EVER BEEN

This was undoubtedly the night and morning before I got back my matric results. I had finished school for good and everything, and they release them online at 3pm  a month or so later and I was so so so nervous for the whole day. I was very grumpy (hahah my poor family had to be very tolerant that day) and I literally couldn't concentrate on doing anything else. I was so nervous that they would be terrible and that my chances for university would fade away and all that! 

THE HOTTEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN

This is definitely definitely when I went on youth exchange to Italy! I was there mid summer, and one or two consecutive days in particular, I remember walking around in the middle of Rome, with the heat just trapped and heavy between all these big buildings and literally not knowing what to do with myself. It was about 45 degrees (Celsius) and every morning I would wake up feeling almost panicked because it was just so hot, all you could do was have a cold shower. 

My youth exchange group and I in front of the Colosseum.

THE COLDEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN

I went on a school science trip to Sutherland which is a tiny little town in South Africa, but is also the coldest town in the country, so going mid-winter, I did kind of expect it. But, wow, it was FREEZING! We were there looking at the SALT telescope (largest one in Africa) and so we were out in the cold at night, and I have never been so cold before. It was at the point where we were wearing stockings, leggings and then pants, like 6 layers of jerseys, hats, gloves, socks, all of it, and were still so cold that we literally were shivering! 

MOST DELICIOUS FOOD YOU'VE EVER EATEN     This was definitely on my exchange to Italy! I was there for 6 weeks and everything I ate there was amazing!! But one pizza I had in Venice stands out! I was on a tour type exchange, and so we were a group of about 50 people from all around the world. One day, we went to this restaurant in Venice near the main canal, and were told we could pick from 1 of 4 pizzas (because there were so many of us, etc.) and I ordered a pretty plain one with mozzarella, basil and tomato, quite standard right? But no.... it was the most delicious thing I've ever had, I don't know exactly what it was about it, but plain, simple, delicious food, in an amazing place, with really great people, I was just very happy. 

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

This is a difficult one, because I don't think I can properly describe to you how absolutely stunning it was! Last June my family and I went to Mauritius for holiday. We went snorkelling pretty much every day and it was always amazing and beautiful. On the one day, the resort guide took a small boat full of us to this place right out of the reef, away from where we usually went. I was pretty scared (I'm very nervous of deeep deep open sea, which this mainly was) and wasn't going to do it, but I'm so glad I did. Looking through my snorkel, underneath the water, it was about 6/7 meters deep (not bad for the open sea!) and like crystal clear, you could just see the entire sea floor covered in colour! The floor was covered in the massive colourful rocks and all around and in between were these exotic, multicoloured fish of all shapes and sizes! They were just beyond beautiful! We saw sea snakes, and massive fish and then tiny ones, and wow, it was just like the most beautiful I've ever seen, although I know my description will come no where near the real thing. 

Mauritius

A MOMENT THAT TOOK YOUR BREATH AWAY

A moment that comes to mind was when I was in Toronto, and we went right up to the top of the CN tower. Up there, they have this glass floor that you can stand on and look down below you, from like 554 meters up! It was just so breath-taking and incredible to see the whole city from so high up, standing on this glass floor! 

SOMETHING YOU REALLY MISS

Being out of school now, most of my closest friends aren't here anymore cause they've gone to different universities, and I really miss them. I miss seeing them at school everyday and the laughs and all that. But also, even when I do get to see them, a lot of them are different, not bad different or anything, just different and I miss how things used to be sometimes. 

Some of my friends and I on Plett Rage after our final exams.

SOMETHING YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO

I am really looking forward to finishing this semester, because it gets a lot easier after June, and I feel like my timetable at the moment is far too hectic and I can't keep up! I am also really excited for the future in general, I can't wait to get further in medicine so I can start working in hospitals and with patients and all that! 

I feel like that quote just sort of sums up what the person who created this tag was thinking- why not just live life to the extreme...