The Curve

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Each year, around this time, I like to take inventory of all the things in my life I am thankful for.

Each year the list is usually pretty similar.. family, friends, food, shelter, ect.

This year, my life encountered what I like to call “the curve”.

A curve is defined as a line or outline that gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length.

The curve my life recently experienced was and is a positive turn of events that gradually deviated from what I thought I wanted.

Things this time last year could not have been more different. If you told me I would be where I am right now, enjoying life the way that I am, I would not have believed you. I am hard headed, and I had convinced myself that the life I was living was my best life (crazy what love will do to the adolescent brain.. LOL).

For as long as I can remember I have been an extraordinary dreamer. I have always chased these incredibly extreme dreams. However, about three years ago my outlook on these dreams changed. My dreams changed from me and my to we and ours. I chased a different dream, a dream that derailed my life and the plans I had made for myself.

I experienced “the curve” at the end of July. I never thought I would be able to walk away from the life I had created for the one that I deserve.

As I began to take inventory on all the things I am thankful for this year, I realized that this curve and all of the amazing things it brought along with it is what I am most thankful for.

This year I am thankful for the decision that I thought would be the hardest thing I would ever have to lose being the easiest thing I have ever said goodbye to.

This year I am thankful for redemption and second chances at life.

This year I am thankful for an overabundance of happiness and joy.

This year I am thankful for friends who are there any day, any time, any place.

This year I am thankful for the prayers that were as equally unanswered as they were answered in the end.

This year I am thankful for independence, experience, and adventure.

This year I am thankful for the curve.

My friends and family often comment on how extremely happy I look in my photos and whenever they see me in person. The best thing about hearing that statement is that I am truly the happiest I have ever been and this noticeable happiness is not just a “look” on social media. It is true happiness that literally radiates from my bones to the surface of my skin.