Taylor Swift got me started....

Taylor Swift got me started, and it's been swirling around in my mind here and there ever since.  Yesterday a friend of mine posted a facebook comment dealing with the same thing and I knew I had to blog.....

On Taylor's new album, she sings a song called "Enchanted", where she sings about being enchanted to meet someone.  It just struck me that I don't think I have ever been enchanted to meet anyone.  Being the holiday season, you hear words like enchanted or magical  being tossed around a lot.  I wonder if instances like that really exist?  As a child, I have no doubt that things could be magical.  It's the process of discovery and learning that make things "magical".  So my friend, Betty posted a comment about missing the way this time of year made you feel when you were a kid, and I decided that we, as adults, don't feel that way anymore because we don't let ourselves feel that way.  At some point in time we became adults, bogged down in the obligations that the holiday season might bring.  No longer can we just count the days with anticipation, thinking that the big day will never arrive.  Now we count them down, so they can finally be over and we can rest, or we count down the days because we feel like we need to take advantage of every available second to get all the "responsible" things done.  So many people I know think about decorating and shopping and baking as a horrible chore that has to be done...it's only that way because they let it be.  Anything can be enjoyable, if you look at it differently.  I'll admit, I am a cynical adult, but somewhere deep inside me is that person, that kid, who sees the magic in things unknown.  I remember the first time I went to New York City at Christmas, I remember rounding the corner and seeing the tree in Rockefeller Plaza...it  was  magical.  It was something that was new to me, something bigger than my everyday life...is that what made it magical?  I'm going to New York tomorrow morning, and I know that rounding the corner again, it will be just as magical this time as the first time, and I think it's because as I've grown into a cynical adult, I have learned and witnessed how quickly life passes.  With that I have managed to learn to just stop, if only for a minute, and take in everything around me, enjoying the moment for what it is, not what it could be, or what I think it should be.  Maybe if we all learn to "take in "life, we can experience "magic" in our everyday life, just like a kid, and maybe, just maybe if we can become that person who loves life someone might actually be enchanted to meet us.  Happy Holidays!