It's a great day to be alive....

I often think about how things change in a period of time.  Most people set out with certain goals, or relationships, and things change, you may end up in an entirely different set of circumstances.  If someone asked me ten years ago that this is where my life would take me, I wouldn't have imagined it.  Like so many people I went through some hardships, but they made me stronger.  Ten years later, I have learned that although you have to be careful who you trust, don't stop trusting.  I have experienced betrayal in my life, but I have not let it make me bitter to other people who enter into my life.

When you find that relationship, whether it is a platonic or romantic, where someone makes you happy, makes you laugh, and you feel you can share your world and THE world with them....don't hold back.  It is hard to find good trusting people in this world, but when you do, hold on to them.

I believe in not taking the easy way out, but sometimes, as you become better, smarter, more spiritual, more loving, you may find the friend or partner you are with is not that same person you once knew.  Then you realize you are not walking together, but separate.  The choice of which road to take becomes yours and yours alone.  It is a difficult choice, but sometimes the difficult choices are what leads us to a better life, filled with love, honor and happiness.

Life is too short for all of us to be involved in endless drama.  I was at lunch today with some friends and we were discussing some changes this one friend wanted to make in her life. She wanted to start over, away from things that have been holding her down and back for so long.  I reminded her that over the last few years, to look at how much she has grown and how she has changed for the better with her goals, her mindset, all while being a single mom.  My advice to her was if she found out this was the last year she would be alive on this Earth, would she make the same choices?  Her response, and I chuckle when I say this, was no I would be doing something different!  My response to her was then why aren't you taking those steps to do so?

Happiness is something you have to push towards, it doesn't always come freely, but if you take the time to sit down, look at your life, your goals, what you want specifically, choose the goals and people that will move you in the path you are meant to walk.

Choose wisely, but live, truly live and enjoy every breath you take.

It's a great day to be alive!