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The Journey

There is this wonderful and terrifying journey that I have traveled. It's called life. Sometimes we all must take a review of our journey, looking back just to remind ourselves of how we have lived.Often times I hear too many of my friends and family asking that age old question, "Why me?".
The easy answer is of course, why not you? However I have a different thought regarding the question.In retrospect how else would I or anyone else become the person that you are now if not for your life's' journey. My life, my journey is the very tool that has taught me the how and why of living. It neither matters that I have had good and bad experiences. It only matters that I learn something important from each experience. The goodness of a action speaks for it's self, learning the error of a bad experience may not reveal it's self so easily. The difference in the two journeys is how I use them to learn and to improve my life.

Life is sometimes like the same kind of chocolates in a box, always giving us the the same flavors over and over with every bit. It is always up to me to select a box of assorted chocolates if the old box isn't working anymore. My journey, my life, is an assortment of chocolates, some I love and some I can do without. But the experience of understanding this is what has become the my teacher.
I know that I am blessed, that I have only good days ahead. I have learn from my journey how to have a good day. My teacher, my life's journey has shown me the bad days, but in so doing this, I choose not to allow bad days to accompany me on future journeys. Dying can change your perspective in just one heartbeat. Flat lining will change it further. Either way death can show you every reason that just simply being alive is the greatest box of chocolates of all. I find that for me my journey both good and bad, happy or sad remains a great challenge. To be able to just breath, aye that's life at it's best and what a wonderful and exciting journey it's been. The happiness we find far our weighs all of our sadness.

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