I didn’t realize when I started writing this post how personal it was going to get. If you are reading this, I consider you a friend and I write like I am having a conversation with you. I have no secrets and everything I have experienced in my life has been for a reason. Maybe someone reading this will be encouraged by my words and know that there is hope for them. You are NEVER too old to have your fairytale ending and live happily ever after. I guess that’s why I really don’t like it when someone says they wished they had my life. Why would you want mine, you have your own. Why would you want to live MY dreams, don’t you want or have your own? It feels like cheating to me. Like you showed up for the pop quiz on “What do you want to do with YOUR life” and you didn’t study (or give it any thought) and just decided to copy my answers. I am living MY dream life. Now. Even when it wasn’t all roses and magical trees singing to me, I still only wanted MY life. I never wished I was someone else or had someone else’s life. I took the good, the bad and the ugly and embraced every minute. Even the worst things in my life happened for a reason. I have experienced things that allow me to be empathetic and understanding to others possibly going through a similar situation. I hope I can be a light that shines for them and says “It’s going to be alright, Life is Good and it will get better”. I will not only survive this, I will thrive. I will come out on the other side a better and stronger person. So if you’re on the outside looking at me and thinking “Man, I wish I had her life”, change your attitude and a few words and instead say, “I want what she’s got. I’m going to make my dreams come true and live MY life as full as she lives hers.” Don’t be jealous or envious, be inspired. Take the first step to making YOUR life one that you want. Dream. After that, get to work and make it happen. After all, a dream is a wish YOUR heart makes :-)