“How are you?”
-”I’m great!”
“Why?
-”Because life is wonderful!”

That’s what I have been answering lately, to the question how I am doing. In the past this was not my usual answer. In fact, this was never my answer. Luckily, I’ve seen the light, so to say, and see how beautiful life is, when you really open your eyes to it. As corny and cliche as it may sound, everything around me is amazing. The creation of life by God, is the biggest miracle, in life. We take everything for granted. Everything. Waking up, opening our eyes, listening to music, smelling the air (whether smoggy or fresh), etc.

I truly appreciate everything in life right now, up to the smallest detail. (The other day, a spider was takin a stroll down my kitchen and I couldn’t kill it. I caught it and released it outside. Yeah yeah call me sappy.) Anyway, stupid example maybe but still, you catch my drift. I have been through so much in life that I am actually also proud of being able to look at life through these positive goggles today. They’re yellow. Like those drops you get in your eye at the optometrist so they can shine that light in your eye and see stuff. Those drops make you see the world MAD sunny. The world stays yellow for a few hours until it wears off. It’s pretty cool. So yeah, I feel like I have those drops in my eyes permanently now. Which is a great thing.

The past few people who I have replied to with “Life is wonderful!” have all asked me the same question to that. “Are you getting married?” No! I am not getting married! And it really makes me wonder, WHY is that such a valid question in response to me saying life is wonderful? What does marriage have to do with life being wonderful? Why can’t life be wonderful without getting married? Or without it having to do anything with a partner at all? Are the people around me really that stuck on society’s rules that we can only be at our happiest when we have found our (potential) life long mate? Does that mean they are unhappy until they have found that person? I’m pretty flabbergasted by the fact that that question was the follow up to my response. Not because of the question itself necessarily but because of the fact that not one, not two but MORE people had that exact same follow up question.

One of the cliche quotes goes “If you can’t be happy with yourself, you can’t be happy with someone else.” What happened to that? If people are so anxious to follow everything society says, aren’t they supposed to follow all the cliche quotes as well? I have always been a big fan of “finding yourself first” before settling down and starting a family. I have always been in big favor of “self progress” before diving into a relationship. That’s just me though. Because I have had a loooooooooot of issues in the past. Sh*t I’m still struggling with a few even. It’s a constant process of bettering myself, every day. But at this moment, I am just very happy to have found myself, to know who I am, why my past is my past and to know where I wanna go in my life. THAT is why life is so amazing to me right now. “I can see clearly now.” As bad as my sight is lol.

I guess what I’m trying to say is; If you truly take a good look at all the beautiful things around you, in your life. And focus less on everything that’s bad, not good or not there (yet), you will also see that life is actually pretty amazing. With or without a better half.

Shout out to all my amazing friends who are definitely a huge part of my amazing world!
Love you all!

Peace & Blessings. <3