life lesson #62

life is too short to be anything but happy. the hard part is figuring out what happiness is. i would venture to say that happiness comes in many forms. in the company of good family and friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's burden lighter, or in a promise of hope renewed. i think it's okay to let yourself be happy, because you never know how great that happiness might be. sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of our lives, that we expect it to always be there. sometimes it's hard to remember a time that it wasn't there. but then one day you feel something else. something that feels wrong only because it's so unfamiliar. and in that moment you realize you're happy.