Perfect Days

This movie reminded me of the quote from Everything Everywhere All At Once personified.    **“In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” ** Joy and beauty is found in simplicity, in the mundane.  My perfect days: Folding laundry on the living room floor with your love while your favorite movie plays in the back ground.  Swinging on the swings in the middle of a weekday in Central Park.  Walking through fresh snow with a hot coffee in hand.  Playing board games by candlelight during a blizzard with your love.  Going to a 10am movie on a Sunday with a gallon of milk and a box of Cheerios.  Spending all day at H&R Block with your best friend because sometimes taxes get too complicated.  Walking through target with your best friend and her kid drinking coffee and buying nothing.  Free sunrise yoga, 6ft apart, during a pandemic in Railroad Park. Making a good cup of chai from scratch.   Running through Buccees at midnight just because.  A first kiss, bye the river at sunset.  Coming across free jazz in Central Park and swing dancing with strangers.  Going to Build-a-Bear as an adult.  Making eye contact with Adam Driver after tripping over a curb and laughing.  Seeing 3 movies in a row with your best friend at the AMC linc because nothing is better than A-List.  That last fall bonfire in high school surrounded by people you know a year later, you’ll likely never speak to again because that’s how life goes.  Seeing Vanderbilt beat Alabama.  Walking around museums alone listening to the LOTR score.  Randomly deciding on a Friday morning to go to the opera, and ending the Friday by watching the sunrise from the Staten Island ferry.  Driving the backroads with the windows down singing at the top of your lungs.  Volunteering at the NYC marathon.  Driving down the Pacific Coast Highway.  Watching When Harry Met Sally.  Finding out you get to transfer to your dream school and your co-workers and freshman year friends celebrate with you, rather than be angry that you’re leaving.  Sipping coffee on a porch in the fall.  Quoting Love Actually to your best friend while running across the Tower Bridge in London at Christmas.  Dressing as Buddy the Elf and running around the city.  Flying to LA after a breakup on Spirit just to lay on your best friends couch for 3 weeks not moving.  Walking from home to the nearest smoothie shop (while living in a suburb with no sidewalks) with your best friend just chatting about life and the future.  Cheering for a high school football team on a Friday night, even though they suck.  Working as a pole worker on Election Day.  Singing Piano Man at a karaoke bar and feeling on top of the world when everyone sings along.  Working at a coffee shop in Nicaragua and slowly becoming bilingual.  Sitting at a diner at 5am chatting with the staff about life.  Tim Tebow picking you out of a crowd for the best sign at SEC Nation.  Going to a strangers wedding in rural Germany despite the fact you’ve known them for 48hrs.  Dancing barefoot in the kitchen. Feeding the stray cats in Greece.  Surprising your love by speaking to them in their native tongue for the first time, rather than English.   Driving to Canada to go to the nearest Popeyes.  Taking 4 hours of public transit just for Waffle House.  Movie Club Mondays.  Walking from the tippity top to the tippity bottom.  Sleepovers with your cousin.  Becoming a regular.  Dining with locals in Athens and helping the restaurant staff clean and close up before they take you dancing.  Chatting with your cabby and getting dinner recommendations.  Cooking for friends.  Walking around a new city.  Creating the perfect playlist for the mood.  Going to Applebees after every musical.  Going to a drive in movie in my dad’s pickup truck.  The first hug with your best friend whom you haven’t seen in ages.  Seeing your favorite tree on your college campus, finally turn yellow in the fall.  Cutting down a live Christmas tree in the UP with your love and tying it to the top of the car.  The first time I got to vote for a female president.  The second time I got to vote for a female president.  Hearing Bye, Bye, Baby play in a coffee shop immediately after Biden won, and having hope.  Sleepovers at your best friends, no matter the age.  Perfect moments. Perfect Days.