Million dollar days

A day that has no trading value because you cannot quantify things like good conversation, shared and humble meals, surf, hikes in the jungle, a variety of birds and flowers, tranquility, peace and good vibes is what I consider a million dollar day. It may well also be called a splendific, rapturous day of amazingness but Ill just call it a million dollar day for easy appeal. Like the Mona Lisa it has value but is not for auction, it is unplanned and gone as quickly as it is discovered and experienced. Things are harvested from these days but the seed is invisible under the ground, infact it has tranformed and become something other than a seed. It cannot be sold and expires after one use. It is dependent on many intellectual and philosophical ideas, your personal health and finances, your state of mind. It is dependent on other people and their own health, ideas and outlooks and in my case their friendly and funny conversation and the way they invite me to a meal without asking me but by making up a plate and assuming I have an appetite. It is experience, weather,culture, geography, time, age, people, animals, flora, air.

A million dollar day starts when you awake without alarm, obligation or appointment. You are strong and healthy and the sun shines between cotton ball clouds. Breakfast and lunch and coffee are taken an hour apart and the ocean beckons you to surf by giving perfect waves of a glassy nature. The birds are talking and their songs are like music, painless and uplifting.

A million dollar day can be spent without spending a dime. It is enjoyed of the fruits of the jungle and farm and grows out of the earth. It is the fresh water that bubbles up from the ground filtered and ready for the body. It is knowing you have food in stores or silver under your pillow. You have worked, suffered, sweat, bled, dreamed, and even died to reach this day or days of days. That history has led you to this single point and you have the clarity of mind to perceive it outside of your ego, your wanting or expectations and without entitlement allows for the saturation of the whole experience without perversions. A pure and whole picture of the world without names or identity.

Finally, a million dollar day is new experiences,new places, new memories, new friends, new thoughts, new. A rare and fleeting feeling. An unquantifiable experience generally not recorded but in the best literature by the likes of Hamsun, Emerson or Thoreau. A slow and multifaceted commingling of little moments and epic revelations. A day that doesn't happen five times a week, month or year. A space of time that for whatever reason transitions smoothly from dawn till dusk and dream until morning.

These are my past two days. Stacked on top of each other at the pinnacle of an increasing slope of good days. Profitable not in silver or dollar but in experience and realization to be added up at the end when I am laying in my death bed counting my luck.