I have a wonderful life - a great family, amazing friends, a job that I like going to everyday and a warm home to come home to at night. I have two kids that I am over the moon proud of and a man who loves me for me (and y'all know that can't always be easy!!!). Why do I say all of this? Well, not to brag my friends. There are days I don't want to get out of bed, there are days work is the last place I want to be. Heck, there are times that I don't want to home and everyone knows family and friends (I include myself in that group thank you very much) aren't easy to deal with either.
What's the point?
We are ALIVE. This is a huge deal people. We are breathing, even if our lungs hurt the air is coming in. We are able to get that hug if we need it (yes, even non-touchers like me need them sometimes), or yell at that person or project out of anger or frustration (ha - okay, I speak loudly all the time but I mean yell). We are able to cry when life is overwhelming or laugh with unabashed joy in our hearts. Let me say again - WE ARE ALIVE.
I make a choice everyday to get out of bed and carry on with life. Good days and bad, happy and sad. I make that choice and I want each of you to make it too. Live those amazing days to the fullest and live the hard ones too. You are a friend, a son, a daughter, a mother, a father, a brother, a sister. You are a human and you are alive and we want you here.
Please don't take any of this as preaching, I am not arrogant enough to presume I can tell anyone anything about how to live a good life - I am lucky and love life. I just observe and feel like the human race, really - those I love - sometimes need a reminder to carry on. And because I do have a soundtrack for life (of course I do and yes, I dance to it too) - there is a song for that:)
Update - I just noticed that my last entry in July (need to write more - goodness knows my journal agrees) was about the same theme...things that make you go hmmm my friends as I write about what I observe...
