What do you want for your life?

What do you want more than anything else in life?  Is it money, success, fame, love, joy, or something else entirely?  I created one of those - "About Me" quizzes once on MySpace and challenged my friends and family to take it to see how well they all knew me.  Not surprisingly - to me anyways - not one person was able to achieve 100%.  One of the questions which pretty much everyone got wrong was similar to the question with which I started this post, "What do I want most in life?".  I think the answers were money, success, happiness, and probably a couple others.  I like to offer five options to make things a little harder.  I was a little shocked at all the wrong answers.  I wondered how all these people that I love and adore could know so little about my true ambition in life.  How could those ambitions be all that people saw in me?  Was there something wrong with me?

Now fast forward two years or so and my life is vastly different.  I am a different person, but what I want most in life hasn't changed.  That answer hasn't changed in YEARS!  My loving aunt commented last week, that I seem so happy on Facebook.  I am always postitive and talking about how I love my life.  The best part, is that it is TRUE!  I LOVE MY LIFE!  In fact that same morning - before I saw my aunt - I was walking through the concourse at work and smiling while thinking to myself, "Terry will be here soon!  I can't wait to see him and Koribella.  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband!"

Every day is a new adventure.  Even if the plan is simply going to work and coming home for dinner with the family, it is an adventure to me.  Oh, don't get me wrong, I want so many things in life.  I want to have money and be successful.  I want to travel the world and see all there is to see.  I want to see my kids grow up and achieve their dreams and age gracefully with the love of my life.  But more than anything in life - I want to be happy!  I have always said to myself, "I want to be happy and if I am not, I want to have the courage to make the changes necessary to achieve happiness."

That same evening my aunt talked about how happy I seem, my cousin and I were playing with Koribella.  We were all three laughing and I said, "See, how could I not be happy with this little girl in my life!"  This is a picture of happiness - Enjoy!