to really live

i know {i know}...
i've been posting a lot [too many?]
"deep thoughts by angie dunn" posts lately,
but!
i just had to share this awesome shirt i just got from bustedtees.

i had to buy it, because not only was it on sale,
but it's totally me.

and this is why:

since high school,
i have given my family specific instructions:

*when i die, i want a green participation ribbon adorning my casket- representative of the happy, yet extremely average life i lived.

you see: growing up i was never the blue ribbon winner.

track & field day stressed me out & then all i had to show for it, was a lousy green ribbon.

i have a trunk full of green participation ribbons. ribbons that added up to a pretty crappy self esteem.

somewhere down the road,
i decided to embrace my mediocrity & be proud of being averagely-average.

*i'd sport my green ribbon with pride.

{i still do.}

but recently, i've changed my mind about what i want that green ribbon to represent.

instead of representing a life of mediocrity,

i want it to represent an ordinary life,
filled with extraordinary love.

***

my new motto:
{compliments of one of my heroes, sister hinckley}

"i don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

i want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

i want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

i want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

i want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

i want the lord to know i was really here and that i really lived."

-marjorie pay hinckley