Enjoying the little things in Just a Journal

3/19/2021, 12:03 a.m. to 12:18 a.m.
If you could go back and relive one day of your life without changing it, which day would that be and why?
There’s probably a lot of days that I would go back and just relieve, especially now without my dad. But it’s hard to think of one or choose one. I could go back to the day we all visited Williamsburg, VA. That trip was a lot of fun, granted the whole trip wasn’t just one day. But I could choose going to Yorktown, or Busch Gardens. I could choose the day the OG phasmo group played together and re-enjoy that chemistry and the beginning of our friendship. The day I won grand champion showman at Big E. That was a good day between finally reaching the highest I could win and just having fun with my 4-H friends and family as well as my actual family. I could choose one of the days back when Graveyard Groove was still happening and see the show one last time in person and truly enjoy it knowing it would be the last time I saw the show and the characters. I could choose any day from our family’s trip to Myrtle Beach back in 2012. Looking back on this prompt, however, I realize that I have lots of beautiful days to choose from. And just as I was about to finish up writing this and thought I had the day chosen, I thought of another one. I am so happy to have photos from that day so that I can look back on them and realize that it was a really good day. Excuse me as I cry while I think and write about it. But out of the 19 and a half years, or precisely 7,107 days, I would choose the day that my family and I went to Mystic Aquarium for the last time as a whole. It was a beautiful day. It wasn’t one of the Autism nights, we went in during the day and got to enjoy looking around for longer than usual. There weren’t many clouds so the sun was out shining and beautiful as ever. The temperature was perfect, sitting in the 60’s. That’s the day I got to feed stingrays for the first time. I got to pet them as always. And that was the day that dad and I pet them together. He had never pet them at Mystic before (or ever as far as I know) and it was really nice being able to experience that with him. And I’m just so glad that I had brought my camera and gave it to my mom so that she could get pictures of me not only feeding the stingrays, but also of my dad enjoying himself petting stingrays alongside me. So yeah, that day. The last day we went to Mystic Aquarium as an entire family, something we will never get to do again. I would give anything to be able to relive that day in a heartbeat because it was just one of the most perfect days of my life.