I wanted to always have picture filled posts here. Happy go lucky my life is grand posts.

My life IS grand 95% of the time.

But there is 5%, give or take, that isn’t always grand. I try not to focus on those days because that’s what brings me down. Life is what you make it. I 100% believe that. YOU make your happiness. YOU choose to happy. YOU choose to dwell on things and let them affect you.

In other words, I choose those things. The few things that bring me down constantly…it’s my choice to dwell on them. It’s not my choice that they pop in my head but it’s MY choice how I react to them. I also admit that I sometimes need help with how I react to them. They’re things I can’t change about the past so I have to change how I feel about them. I HAVE to….before they consume me.

I choose, most days, to focus on the fabulous things about my life. Those are the things that define me. Those are the things that keep me going. I at least realize that the bad things don’t define me. And thank God they haven’t affected my life SO much that they’re all I think about…or that things are SO bad because those things happened to me. Because it’s not. Things are good. Things are really good. And those things are just speed bumps. Granted, sometimes I take a detour and circle back around and ride over those speed bumps again. Sometimes by choice. Sometimes it just happens. But I wouldn’t be me without them. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them.

I wish that “that person” would disappear. I miss my dad. I miss my ex best friend. I’m jealous of people who are close to their siblings. I wish that “one huge thing” never happened. These are my 5 speedbumps.