Life's all in what you make it.

Tonight was great. It was a really good friend of mine's birthday so we all went out to dinner. It was definitely a much needed girls night. There were laughs and smiles all night long, never a dull moment. Although nothing life changing exactly happened, tonight made me realize a lot more than I thought it would.
Tonight made me realize that I truly wouldn't replace my life for anyone else's. You couldn't make me want to trade lives with the one person in this world who has it easiest. So far life for me has been a nonstop roller coaster. It's been a up and down battle the whole way through, but I've realized something throughout it all. I've realized that you can't always dwell in the worst of a situation. You can't solely live your life in haunting memories of the past. There is so much more to life than that. You have to strive to find the happiness throughout it all. It is there. Whether we want to believe it or not there is always hope, in one form or another. It's always there. We have to want to see it. We have to choose what we want. Getting there is never easy. But then again, we were never promised that it would be. It's just one thing that will all be worth it in the end.
When we finally get to where we want to be, we will have the assurance and know that we worked for it, that it wasn't just given to us. We'll be able to appreciate it a lot more. We cherish the things that we work for, we remember the things that come with lessons. It will be the our life that we worked for and nobody can take it away from us. Our future is our own. It's all what we make of it.
Sure, bad things happen. Bad things happen all the time. Believe it or not though, there is a positive side to all of our troubles. So what exactly do troubles bring us? Sadness, pain, tears, anger, depression, frustration, ect. But saying all of that, that's only focusing on one side of it all. It's us not wanting to see the positives, the hope in it all. A lot of the time we don't see the opportunities troubles bring us. Troubles give us the opportunity to become stronger. Without troubles, we would be so weak. If we take situations maturely we can become wiser, smarter. We can learn our weakness, we learn not to make the same mistake twice. Some of the strongest people you will ever meet have probably suffered and been through more than you could ever imagine. What got them to where they are now?
Having a perfect life?
Doubt it.
It's definitely something to think about. Something to think about the next time you're having a bad day.
There is an outcome that can be so much greater than the misery and pain we feel.
We are stronger than the obstacles put before us. Sometimes we just have to step up and prove that.
Never.give.up.




<3
Micaela