My Cup Half Full

I sent out an Just A Thought that I didn't include here. It was about the Ebersols and the loss of their 14 year old son in an accident.

A question was posed: Are you Happy?
Because you should be happy at the time of your death.

So I summised there should be something about everyone's lives that they can feel good about, they their lives have been happy and fulfilling.

So I tried to create my list of stuff that makes me feel good and/or brings me closer to finding myself:

-I had my first international solo trip at 16.
-My first open water dive was among good people, and swarms of jelly fish.
-I bungeed and survived.
-I stood within the Temple of Poseidon in Greece on a cliff overlooking the sea, and imagined Grecian sailing ships coming to port.
-I went into a lesser known Egyptian temple on the grounds of the Grand Pyramid in Giza and learned how they treasured the lifetime of a person is so important that they would draw them on a wall in the room where the body is buried.
-I ate a internationally famous chocolate cake, the Sacher cake, at the place where it was first made: the Sacher hotel in Austria...with someone I love dearly. And throughout the whole time, we were exclaiming that we were eating the "SUKKAAAA...SUKKEEERRR cake".
-I ate great Thai food in Molmo, Sweden.
-I walked around the film sets and lots where Bollywood films are made.
-I braved the freezing cold of winter with family and friends to experience New Year's Eve in Times Square, just so that I can say 'been there, done that'.
-I realized I knew myself musically when at Warner Music, I was more excited about the Spice Girls from EMI.
-I had a run in with Sandra Bullock and her Publicist and got stared at by Hugh Grant and realized that Hollywood is not in touch with the real world.
-Mr 'The Fly' Jeff Goldblum literally had eyes for me in NY and made no bones about it even though it was rumored that he was getting married to a woman waaay younger than him. PS he kept asking me my real age.
-One of the best compliments I got was from a woman: Linda Evangelista who, to this day I will never forget saying to my face that I had beautiful eyes.
-Shirley Manson, from Garbage walked around the hotel with me, and told me that I was the only journalist that treated her like a regular person and not a celebrity and that she was so thankful.
-I sat near the Pyramid at the Louvre in Paris at 3 am in the morning with the best friend, best relationship I had EVER...a woman no less, talking about nothings that meant something.
-I rode the big Ferris Wheel in Paris with a friend of over 20 years.
-I bought my Versace book in Versace in Milan, after everyone there treated me like they knew me for 20 years. Small purchase but big impression.
-I walked along smaller pathways in Venice.
-I saw a beautiful setting sun by the beach in Vicenza and on a cliff in Santorini.
-I cruised down the river Rhine seeing ancient castles on either sides of the valley, before buying a hand made cuckoo clock from a traditional German village.
-My world was changed when I saw people living under bridges in Jakarta, and thin women carrying babies less than a year old in India, and most recently a woman sitting on a sidewalk in Bangkok with an infant with blackened legs sleeping draped across her lap like a dead toy, and a little girl barely 8 years old begging from car to car at 2 am in the morning, and skipping and jumping like she was playing, reminding me that she is after all a child. I cannot handle the injustice of poverty. And the cruelty to children.
-I sat with tribes people in Davao as they crafted traditional fabrics.
-I saw my mother shed a tear when she saw the sun set on the top of the World Trade Center in New York.
-I braved the rain for Mardi Gras in Sydney and walked an hour back home in boots and hot pants.
-I now understand the human tragedy of HIV/Aids.
-I did the unthinkable and unexpected...I fell in love with a Jewish man.
-Together with my friend, I talked backstage with Cherry Jones about the play and her role in the the staging of Doubt on Broadway, before she won her Tony that I told she she would get.
-My friend and I got caught in a blizzard at Woodbury Common and had to drive back at a pace of an inch per minute.
-I created Singapore's first and only fashion magazine program and paved the way for Producers to go on international travel.
-I won nation wide design competitions with things I made by hand, by the time I was 23.
-I earned the respect of my DoP, who was among the top 3 in Thailand, so much that he was willing to cut his rates to work with me again, to help me fulfil my next vision.
-I created a hall dance group that went on to perform in Zouk, the first ever by a varsity arts group...to music created and mixed by resident DJs.
-I had a book published.
-I survived Istanbul.

I hope to be allowed to have the list grow...