By Heidi Hess
My head was spinning. I’m telling myself to breathe. My seventeen-year-old son is ushering me back into the cue for Mako (the tallest, longest, steepest rollercoaster in Florida) at Sea World because we need to go on, you guessed it, just one more time. This was our fourth time going on and the bunny hills were starting to turn my stomach but… I couldn’t let him down.
So, I keep walking, breathing, and get on the coaster not just one more time but three more times after that. Go me. It’s funny the things you can do when your kids are involved. Now full disclosure, I love rollercoasters. I talk about them all of the time. I’m drooling over the new ones being built for Epic Universe in Orlando. By the way, the Penguin Trek rollercoaster opened the day we were there and it’s fantastic…a really good starter rollercoaster for the littles but fun for the whole family.
While I was in line, I was thinking, what happened to doing things just one more time? Why is once enough? Have we lost that childlike mentality that says “again, again, again?” What do you like to do? Today I challenge you. Whatever it is, do it one more time. Life’s short and doing things we love keeps us happy and enhances our life. Could we survive our medical ailments if we did this more? I can’t say… but it sure can’t hurt. In fact, it might find you smiling just a little more.
