Blessings

As we sit here under the rain filled sky, under a rain that cleanses us with each new drop that falls, we realize that what we have in this life are blessings and achievements and in the end, nothing else really matters. After a very long day, filled with many things that tested my ability to go on, I sit here tonight, next to the boy I love, listening to the rain outside and counting my blessings. And as so much is about to change in my life, I can't help but hope that I am this lucky the rest of my life. I can't help but hope to have the friends and family and love in my life that I do know forever.

There are challenges each and every single day, there are moments when you just want to cry and run away, there are times when nothing goes right, when you hope it will all just go away. And then there are times when you don't think you could be any happier, when every wish seems to come true. There are times when you must take what you are dealt and make the most of it, and there are times when moments pass you by and when you wish you could get them back.

I have learned in my life that's been riddled with so many goodbyes to so many people and places I have loved, that things that are supposed to be in your life, will be. That the people that truly touch you deeply will always remain in your heart and while some may fade, they will always be there, they will always be blessings in their own way.

It seems that the past two weeks have been such an emotional rollar coaster for me, good and bad, hard and easy, challenging and rewarding, and yet here tonight I sit listening to the rain outside, knowing that whatever may happen in my life in the years to come, I will always have those people and places that keep me whole, the things in my life that I count as blessings each and every single day, and those moments that still take my breath away.