A Life Less Stagnant. A Life Never Ordinary.

I just finished reading listening to a book called Still Alice by Lisa Genova. I haven't seen the trailer, but I know it will be a movie coming soon to a theater near you. The story isn't the most thrilling or adventurous plot, but it's such an interesting lesson on something that seems to be affecting more and more people -- Alzheimer's.  Still Alice is about a woman who gets diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's and she begins telling her story when she still has the sound mind to do so and as a reader you watch as her sound mind begins to deteriorate faster and faster. Alzheimer's, or dementia, it doesn't matter what you call it -- is so sad. As a society we all crave control and we thrive on our best memories.   There were so many moments in this story that I found myself thinking about how life would be for someone that was literally feeling as though they were losing their mind and practically witnessing it as it happens. My favorite part of the whole book was a speech that Alice gives at an Alzheimer's Convention. She talks about how she doesn't live for tomorrow's because she doesn't know what she'll remember then; instead she lives for her today's, for her right nows.  She lives in the moment. Hearing that phrase from someone that is literally unable to live in anything but the present puts a whole new spin on it, doesn't it?

So - on that note. Here's to a life less stale. A world of living in the moment. A high-five to right now and to whatever it is or isn't.

In A Benton World, our now is learning how to be brothers, soaring with sunbeams and figuring out how to clap. Life is Big right now. Blowyourmindbig.

After writing this post I started thinking about the title that was chosen for Still Alice.

Is she Still Alice? Or is she a Still Alice?

Is it still life.  Or is it a still life?

Simple. Still. Life.