its all relative

I think that life is measured by many things, the most important thing is where you focus.  Im learning at 43 where the importance is and where my energy should be focused.  I am planning a trip with my mom and youngest daughter this September and the excitement and anticipation is the best part.  We have never done this before and I believe it will be a memory that will last a lifetime.  My mom is world traveled as well is my daughter yet the excitement level for a trip to L.A. is huge and it hit me; it is not not always where you are it is who is there with you.  What a revelation and why the hell has it taken me so long to realize this?  I mean looking back just a month my best days have been spent with my daughter just watching a movie or having a talk on the balcony. It is so simple yet not so easily absorbed.  Everyone should realize how much every moment means, it counts even when you don't think so that moment could be a lifetime memory to someone else.  I also realize how the things I am the most excited about in thinking about that trip is not what would be expected; it is not the rides or the park, its the day we get there early and getting a glass of wine and relaxing by the pool all together, just the three of us. Something that has not been done, something new, something to experience and treasure, time, the only thing that can not be done again.