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This morning, with her, having coffee.
Johnny Cash, when asked his definition of paradise
Brilliant. So simple, yet so true. That’s what I thought when I first read this quote on my Twitter feed a few days ago.
Johnny Cash got it.
He understood.
It’s funny how paradise can turn out to be something completely different from what we thought it would be. That what we think we want is nowhere close to what we end up cherishing.
How often do we tell ourselves that when we get that promotion, when we finally can afford a house in a particular area, when who we are becomes a household name, we will have arrived? It will be like paradise.
We don’t always know what we treasure until it is lost to us. One only has to look back to realize that “those days we sat drinking coffee with whomever, while the rising sun’s rays spilled onto the kitchen table” were the best times of our lives.
It really is the people whom we love in life that make it feel as though we’re living in paradise or said more plainly – mean the very most to us.
~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~
