It's not like I was purposely thinking of how amazing my life is, but I couldn't help it. I was walking Meeko today on the Jordan River Parkway and I started thinking about my life. It started off as a simple what do I have to show for my 22 years of existence and then it graduated into what makes me smile and then escalated to why am I so blessed?
At first I thought about the fact that I am a "boss". Not technically THE boss, but I am a boss. Then I thought about how I had ventured out when I was 18 and made it on my own for two years. After that thought, Shawn walked into my mind. Just thinking of him made me smile. We have been married for six months, we have a place to call our own (okay not that we own it, but it has only our stuff in it), we make each other giggle and smile, and our marriage is going great. He even can make me laugh when I am, lets say, not agreeing with him at the moment (just like my sister Lyndsay can).
My blessings don't end there. I have friends and family who love me. I have friends who I can go talk to when I have a problem and I have friends who come and talk to me. Its a two way thing. Everyone should have people they can talk to and they should have people who trust and confide in them as well. Seeing how I have both I am blessed.
So why can't this type of thinking happen everyday. Could you imagine if everyone at some point during the day thought about how amazing their life was and found at least one thing that they could say makes them smile? Can you imagine all the happy people we would have walking around? Even better would be if we could all be thinking about it constantly, our world would be full of smiling happy people. I know that when I was walking and thinking about all of this I couldn't help but to smile the whole time. Might have creeped a couple of the other walkers out but for the most part people were smiling back at me.
Maybe this is what I needed. After being sick for days and getting stressed over changes that are going on around me, maybe I needed that walk to clear my head and to re-look at the joys of my life. Look at the things that make me smile and feel good about myself and my life.
All I can say is that I know I am truly blessed.
"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in everyday" Author unknown
