A Million Miles In A Thousand Years

I recently finished A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller. It is a wonderful book where the reader follows the author as he edits his life to see if it would be worthy of a movie. What he finds is that, like a movie, lives have memorable scenes as well. Your life may not be as exciting as a movie but that's because movies aren't real. Life doesn't happen like The Notebook or like The Hangover. Sure, each life will have memories like some scenes but your whole life cannot be that way. That's why we go to the movies and think "I wish my life was like that." It is, just not every day. Scenes in movies often take place in strange places.
One line that sticks out to me was near the end of the book and I would like to share it with you. "When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out." Like in the movies, you remember those memories you have while in a strange scene. You won't remember sitting a home on a saturday with your friends playing video games but you will remember sitting in a pasture during a lightning storm talking about why you love someone.

A Million Miles In A Thousand Years makes me want to leave right now, grab 3 friends and head any direction. We don't need to have a destination. That would be much more memorable than sitting here watching football (soccer) and typing on my computer. It makes me think of the song by Valencia called "The Good Life." Listen to it and read this book. They will change your life. That is the hope anyway.