Lessons Learned

I teach high school, so I impart my knowledge on my students. This year however, I have been the recipient of some lessons. I found myself eating lunch with a very diverse group, we call ourselves the Lunch Bunch. They have taught me to LIVE - LOVE - LAUGH.
LAUGH - you have to laugh everyday!!! I'm not talking about a little giggle or hee hee, but a loud, belly hurting, eye watering laugh. A laugh that no matter how hard you try, you can not stop.
In order to do this everyday, you have to learn to laugh at yourself. To be secure enough in who you are to not be offended and hurt when others laugh at something you have done, but to realize "that is funny" and to laugh with them.
This is a lesson I am trying to teach my sons. That through laughter, life is so much happier. Not to laugh AT someone, but to recognize when they have done something that causes others to laugh and to laugh with them. These are the times good memories are made.
As we count the days happily till school is out, I find myself a little sad. I will miss my lunch bunch! I will miss laughing till my sides hurt and my eyes water. It has been these moments that have made the year for me. Thank you lunch bunch!!!