Why Saddness?

Sometimes I just wonder why it is that people cannot let go of their past and live in the now. Why is it that happiness cannot be achieved in this moment, if that is what you strive for in the now could you imagine all the happiness that you can string together.

I listen to the excuses, not enough money, not the right jobs, not enough stuff. I would rather count on my hands the blessing in what I do have then think about that that I do not. For maybe it is not meant to be that I am rich, that I am famous but maybe only that I am happy.

I see so many people walk around in this world so unsatisfied with where they are and what they are doing, people who forget to stop and be thankful. They are so miserable that I want to pull them into my arms and let them know that everything is okay, that in this moment that they are alright. Is it not enough to have life, health, love and family.

People that really know me know I have been through some pretty horrible events in my life, and some cannot believe that I can walk out the door. And for awhile I could not, but what I know now is that if I change the person that I am the free spirit that I am because harm came to me at one time then am I not letting the person that caused that harm win? Is not what happened to me just a moment in time as well?

 I chose to live today, I do not make a lot of money, and yet I can travel to the most beautiful places because when I do I go on faith. Faith that everything will turn out as it should be. Faith that I am always right where I am suppose to be.
I do not follow the norm, I follow my heart. I do not require much, soft toilet paper, food and a roof over my head and I am happy. Add Family to that and I am on cloud nine.

I know for me that when I live in the negative I reap the negative results but it I live in the positive so much good happens to me. Everyday is like unwrapping a present, I have no idea what is in store no idea what I could be unwrapping but I know that I want to cherish it, enjoy it, live it, feel it.

If I could ask for one thing in this life it would be for people to have the ability to actually let go of their past, not like they are casting out a line but throwing the whole dang pole in the river so they cannot reel the past back. Let it go, you cannot change it, all you can do is accept it and move on. if you didn't like it change that today do things differently..
I wish today that the ones I love could just live in this moment..