After the "The End"

She got everything she wanted. The long, soul-crushing, eye-opening, heart-searching journey was over and here she was with all that she gained from it. She had the home, the family, the job... She got everything. And she knew it too.

It was a crisp morning while she found herself enjoying her morning coffee on the balcony. Her pen and journal lay in her lap as she had been scribbling down her daily gratitudes to start off the day. That was a habit she was really trying to get into- daily gratitude journaling. As her list grew she realized, she truly had all the things she had ever wanted. She took a deep breath in as she closed her eyes, as if she would be able to somehow physically soak in the joy that exuded from her.

She truly had it all.

And then she lost it.

Or, that is how every story goes. Thus, probably allowing our subconscious to believe that is how life goes. You fight and fight and finally get it all only to have some big tragedy take it all away. How many times have you gotten the good thing you worked so hard at only to be looking around every corner for the shoe to drop and for you to lose it all?

You finally got it, but when does it all go away?

From a story stand-point- I get it. You need a good conflict to push the plot along. No one wants a boring story of a character who falls into a peaceful routine and a simple life. That is why every story ends at the 'happily ever after'.

Until the sequel. Now the author has to destroy everything the character had gained and re-do it all again but in a different way. I think we feel life will be exactly like that.

But maybe it doesn't have to be. Maybe you can get to that time in your life where you feel totally content and at peace with all you have and maybe it can always be like that.

Now, I am not too naive to think we won't deal with any hardships or struggles in our life. Life will, well, it will do as life does. We will deal with loss and heartbreak. Season's will shift and the life around us will look different. But maybe it doesn't have to be an astronomical life-altering, world-shattering event that causes us to lose all we gain every time we finally have it all.

I mean that may happen if you're in a pattern of self-sabotage but that goes into a lot of deeper things you'd have to talk to your therapist about.

Maybe the high-highs and the low-lows of life can stable out to a steady wave. I am beginning to believe we can have far more good days than bad. That it doesn't have to be some even scoring game. I actually believe we can have REALLY good days without the worst day of our life following shortly after.

Life can just be good. And it can stay good. We can be happy and love all we have. We can understand loss in life is inevitable, but it does not have to destroy our existence.

So, go out and get everything you want in this life. It won't slip through your grasp the second you finally get it. It's fully yours. I promise.