I am so happy today I can’t even speak. It overwhelms me, takes hold of me, makes me shudder and shiver. It makes me giggle and wave hello to the leaves dancing on the pavement. It makes me smile sleepily, and day dream. Happiness makes me love infinitely, and confidently.
Today I took a moment to pause and look over all of my accomplishments over the last half a year. I’ve had to overcome so much, and not just from the outside but from within. I’m a work in progress, like everyone else. But I can’t help but be overjoyed by life.
I’m grateful for life, and struggle.
I find it oddly beautiful that in order to make my dreams come true I had to pass through a series of nightmares. Events I used to lay awake in bed worrying about like freezing, being hungry, poor, homeless, losing my family, etc…
I’ve gone through, and come out alive.
Despite these struggles I still think I’m the luckiest woman alive. Who else gets to live the dream they had as a child? Who else has had every wish they’ve ever wanted come true? And how many people in the world out there are doing exactly what they want to do right now?
How many people have you, looneyboy?
Nina Simone says it best when I can’t quite find the words for my happiness:
“It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me…and I’m feeling good.
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me”
For the first time, I’m in love with life LIVING.
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I can answer that question, looneygirl. When you see them, you know. When you *are* one, everyone else knows, too.
My dream was so much like your dream, too. When we were kids, we leapt over time and space, and I swear if we didn’t share the same lofty dreams over a summer ice cream. We might have been alone. But we weren’t. Laughing while the rest of the world thought that we were all alone. Or just fucking weird.
And as for me living my dream?
Come over here, and I’ll slip you the answer in between our lips.
Sam