Sometimes I forget…

Sometimes I forget that I'm allowed to dream big no matter how old I get..

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening.
Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them;
nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine
and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true "
Woodrow Wilson

For the first time..

"Trying to make it work but man these times are hard
But we're gunna start by drinking old cheap bottles of wine
Sit talking up all night
Saying things we haven't for a while, a while yeah
We're smiling but we're close to tears
Even after all these years
We just now got the feeling that we're meeting
For the first time"

the.original.

Freedom is never free.

My favorite Veteran,thank you Grandad for being so brave!
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." ~Elmer Davis

“happiness is only a mood, not a destination”

Happiness.Last night as I was watching my all time fave show One Tree Hill, the topic of Happiness was brought up. Happiness is something that I have been thinking a lot about,asking the questions... What makes me happy now and what is going to make me happy in the future? This quote really slapped me back to reality.

“so, i’ve been thinking about this whole being happy thing, and i feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. we’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy - we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that’ll fix everything - but happiness is a mood, and it’s a condition…not a destination. it’s like being tired or hungry. it’s not permanent. it comes and goes, and that’s okay. and i feel like if people thought of it that way, they’d find happiness more often.”

Wake up call,right!!I am one of those people that for the most part looked at happiness as a destination."I'll finally feel happy when I am finished with nursing school or that one person can make me feel happy all the time." But all those thoughts are lies.Maybe if I can start to understand that happiness is not permanent,and it doesn't depend solely on a job or a person then maybe happiness will finally be a stable part of my life.