Eating yummy foods is one of my passions in life. Do I feel a little awful sometimes failing at
balancing enjoying this yummy food and knowing when enough is enough? Occasionally. But
not today.
Today a little thing like a gulp of orange juice made me so happy, it was something I just had
to write about.
The orange juice, Tropicana, was poured into one of my favorite drinking glasses. A wine
glass really but I don’t really love wine. But since the glasses are so beautiful I just drink
everything else out them. It makes me happy. I got this set from the dollar store. They really
have nice things sometimes at the dollar stores. You've just got to go to the big ones.
Anyway, the orange juice looked so nice in this clean clear glass. I felt so grown up bringing it
to the couch with me. I sipped a little at first. It was so crisp and refreshing in my mouth, like
someone in the kitchen juiced some oranges just for me and put it right in my special wine
glass.
Of course they had to strain out the pulp, the pulp makes me sad. I sipped a little bit more,
feeling so responsible for the vitamin c intake. I picked up the glass a little later and noticed
that I only had a little less than one sip left. I held up the glass of the pretty yellow-orange
orange juice and had a good look at it. I licked my lips in anticipation, and slowly poured the
last bit into my mouth.
I held it there for a few moments, swishing it around very gently, tasting every morsel of flavor
on every single taste bud. I was in heaven. Then I swallowed. And sighed. Pleasant
experiences can sometimes be made even better if you just go ahead and sigh.
It was a perfect moment. I was not able to go overboard like I tend to do and have another
glass because I drank the last of it this morning. So the moment was even more perfect
because I was not allowed to overindulge.
Life is greatest for me when I realize that happy moments are everywhere, in everything, even
in a small wine glass of Tropicana orange juice.