The sounds and smells of our lives

Every once in a while you experience a sound or a smell and it triggers something in your brain that paralyzes you, if only for a second. Sometimes good, some bad. It can be the scent of a perfume that someone close to you wears, or a sound that takes you back to your childhood. As I get older I experience these more and more.
 
Yesterday it was the rain. That wonderful slow drizzle of rain. The sound of it hitting the roof and the smell of rain on the pavement. This sound and smell make me infinitely happy. Rain cleanses the soul and makes everything new again.
 
Today it was my coffee. I happened to get a mixture of my creamer and coffee just right and it took me to the Ocean. Just for a fraction of a second. I don't even know the exact memory, but I know it was coffee near the beach. I stopped, closed my eyes and took that moment to be happy (and cry a little).
 
I really believe that this is what life is about.
Live, Dream, Adventure, Take Risks, and LOVE. All of these things create memories that will forever be stored in your brain. Do these things so that 10, 20, or 30 years later you can be sitting at your desk drinking coffee and be totally overcome with the same feelings you had at that specific moment in time.
 
It's worth it. All of it.