Hello my little hipsters,
Today was a glorious amazing day and I can't help but smile just thinking of it. The world is a wondrous and beautiful place and I am sooo happy to be a part of it.
If you really think about it, it's truly amazing that we're all alive and we interact with one another. Think of all the obstacles we've already surpassed, we've fought against all the odds to be the one sperm that made it to the egg, we fought against the harsh conditions of our mother's uterus to be expelled into this world, blind naked and helpless. We face viruses, accidents and other dangerous situations that we've survived. Life is a miracle, and if you're reading this now and feeling down, I want to tell you that because you are living and breathing you are beautiful and have so much potential. Keep your chin up little piglet!
Enough of that mushy stuff, but if you seriously sit down and ponder life and the chances of meeting and interacting with the people you love and care about, the numbers are phenomenal. The chances of meeting so many beautiful, amazing people just makes feel so blessed and amazed, it renders me speechless.
If you haven't noticed, I'm in a VERY good mood. I did fairly well on some tests, I was able to hang out with the people I care about, and life is going along fairly well. The guy I think is the bee's knees seems to like me back, I got a kiss from him (eiiiiii!) and things are looking up.
I just want to let you guys know (whoever you are out there who's reading this) that I love you. I may not know you, or i may never will, but I love you and you're beautiful. Everyone deserves to be told that at least once a day.
Ever since my Grandpa died, I'll be the first to admit I was(and still am) a little lost in this big thing we call life. He truly was my anchor, and he meant the world to me. He was an inspiration.
He was born the oldest of three children on a farm, which in itself if not a very easy situation to be in, especially during the depression. But not only that, but he was born with ONE arm. Now a days, people would take that in stride and get a prosthetic, but when my Grandpa was a kid there was no such thing. But he never let this bog him down. He worked hard on the farm, while also attending a one room school house. He was also the first person in his family to attend and graduate from university. He continued on to become a teacher, spreading on his philosophy of education being the most valuable thing to obtain, and at one of the schools he worked at he met my grandmother.
Now I'm not going to go into cheesy details, mostly because I'm not very familiar with this portion of his life, but they fell in love and had 3 kids, one of which was my mother.
My Grandpa always told me that life can be difficult, but you just have to keep at it and sooner or later things will sort themselves out. This came with a fair bit of certainty, because he went through so much as a child, and as a grown adult. Now, I never knew my Grandmother. From what I gather we were fairly similar, and i suppose that's where I get my creative abilities from. She was always a woman of fairly poor health, and eventually while my mother was going through University, medication and science wasn't able to help her. She died before my mother got married, of cancer. Of course my Grandpa took this very hard, she was his wife after all, but as he told me in his later years in life, he took it in stride and just kept going along with life.
After a while, things seem to return to normal (or as close as they ever going to be) and my mother graduated University, and she and my father got married and little baby me was born.
I mean, erm, perfection was brought into the world, and stuff...
In any case, everyone was happy, but sometimes life throws a curve ball at you. My Uncle died suddenly, just before my first birthday, due to complications after a simple surgery to remove his gallbladder. Again, this was quite devastating for my family, especially since it was totally out of the blue.
Anyways, enough of my sad story. The point to all of this is that life is a gift, so enjoy it. Regret nothing, and find as many ways to be happy as you can each and everyday.
So smile, and keep your chins up, my little hipsters <3
xoxo
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