S-M-i-L-E :D

I love smiling.

No, seriously.

I LOVE smiling.

For the past couple of weeks I've awoken each morning not feeling my best. Of course, by saying "not feeling my best," I simply mean to say that I felt like a lazy loser that might as well have just dropped from the sky with no meaning and no purpose in life. When I wake up feeling that way, it just seems that nothing goes my way. It seems that nothing can make me happy. Then I realized, that's just it: NOTHING can make me happy. Ha the only thing that can make me happy is me. Just me. It doesn't matter that I'm not in school and I don't have a job. I have an amazing family, a more than adequate home, a healthy car, and a knowledge that there is a divine, predetermined plan that has been set apart for just me. I start school in the fall, and I start my new job this upcoming Monday. I just graduated from high school and I get to start my life as an adult, beginning to explore the paths that will show me who I am supposed to be. What could be better than that?

I am so blessed to be where I'm at in my life. It truly is a blessing to be who I am and have so many chances and choices before me. What an amazing time and place to be living. I get to receive an education, see people I love every day, and best yet, I get to choose my life. I get to wake up every morning, and CHOOSE what I want to be. So why, when given such an amazing opportunity, would I ever, ever choose to not smile, or to not be happy. It just seems ridiculous that anyone with an opportunistic life like mine, would choose to do anything but smile. So, I'm going to smile :D I hope that my smile can maybe help others to smile as well.

Please, please...smile.