It has been brought to my attention on several occasions that I rarely, if ever, take time to stop and actually celebrate my achievements. I don’t take time to celebrate the milestones and the “little” victories along life’s road. It’s something I had been working on but it’s hard for me, a person who has faced (and I suppose in some ways really thrived on) challenges. So for me it’s always a moment of “Woo hoo, I did it! Ok, next?”. In this day and age where we are constantly ON and expected to perform and then out-perform, and then out-perform that performance, who really has the time to stop and smell the rosé?
I realized that even though I was starting to take time to stay in the moment (sometimes) to at least stop and say “Woo hoo, yay me!” it wasn’t really enough. I still wasn’t taking the opportunity to absorb the accomplishments and mark those achievements. So I challenged myself this year, (after all I do love a good challenge!), I challenged myself to enjoy life a little more and to mark more occasions with bubbles. Yes that’s right, bubbles. Champagne and sparkling wine weren’t created to only be savored on New Years and at weddings you know. 😉 Heck, I know a wine blogger in Germany who has bubbles EVERY Sunday! Cheers to the end of the week?!
That being said I suppose, my challenge to myself still began with a big thing, my exit from corporate slavery this past February. An occasion that very much deserved bubbles!! Freedom from any shackle in life is an occasion worth celebrating. So I marked the event with a bottle of Champagne. Then my friend got a divorce — Champagne. A good friend of mine that I hadn’t seen in 7 years came to visit – sparkling rosé for breakfast the day she arrived! The first post to this blog – Champagne AND Sparkling Rose!(because I could and because I deserved it!) While a lot of these things would still be considered milestones along the journey of life, how many of us would really take the time to go pick out a bottle of bubbly to mark the occasion? Great Champagne is indeed a bit of a luxury AND it doesn’t just have to be saved for ringing in a new year or for toasting a new marriage. After all, how often have years been crap and those marriages broken up? Just sayin’.
Bubbles don’t need to be saved for special occasions – instead they should be used to make an occasion special. Something to help make that moment effervesce in your mind! Good times with good friends and a glass of good bubbles helps to make you slow down and take the time to say “Ahhhh, this is awesome” and when toasting to an accomplishment “Ahhh…yeah I did that, and I deserve this moment”.
Cheers to the good times and the moments worth remembering!
Here’s hoping that next year is filled with even more moments to be celebrated!
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