The Goodbye Game

As I sit here exchanging pleasantries with my office's usual cleaner, I chuckle internally about how she'll never let anyone have the last word. Someone else pointed it out to me a while back... now I sometimes find myself playing a game. How many different ways can you say goodbye and give well wishes? There are plenty of ways... trust me... I've even played the game while walking into a bathroom stall and starting to take care of business.

"You have a good day."
"You too."
"Thank you."
"No, thank you."
"Bye-bye".
"Bye."
"Have a good one."
"Same to you."

And on it goes...

Last night was a piece of work. We get to the bowling alley to find out there are no open lanes because of it being one of four league nights a week. So, we made our way to the attached bar and ended up having a blast while not bowling. Throwing darts and having just a few beers and shooting some pool. It was a good time had by all. And for once, I'm really pretty sure al1 13 of us did actually have a good time. Lots of laughing.

Apparently, if you try to shoot darts while standing on one foot, the darts will no longer aim at the board, they'll find their way to the wall and then tumble down to the ground.

Last night was a very, very relaxed night. With nothing itching my brain for attention other than what was going on at the moment made me aware of one thing. One very important thing... how living in the moment is awesome. To stop trying to figure out the games we play or stop trying to figure out why so and so did this, or did that. I have gotten pretty decent at reading people at this point. Not perfect, but decent. Sometimes they're just trying too hard to be liked and they turn into douches. Simple as that. Sometimes it's way more complicated but everyone's vulnerable ultimately so the easiest road to take is just being open and honest with most people, most of the time. Kind of makes the stress of everything else melt into the background. And that, my friends, is when you can start really living in the moment more often than not.