Choose your life, choose your happiness.

I don't remember this picture being taken or even where I am but I stumbled onto it a few years ago and I love it. I know you can barely see my face but you can see my happiness and my joy. I want to keep that happiness and joy alive. I want to always remember that there are people worse off than me and that I have a pretty good life overall. I was talking to a co-worker today and she said that she would re-do her life over if she could. She said that she passed by so many opportunities, dating, marriage, children, all of it she let pass her by because she let her career control her life. I agree that career is important but it shouldn't be the only thing in life you accomplish. Life is way too short to only work. There is always someone else that could walk into the job you are doing and do it just as good if not better than you. When you die people aren't going to say "Wow they always stayed late agter work to finish up." Who cares? No one. I am going to work so that I can enjoy life, not so that I can have thousands of dollars in my bank account, maybe only one thousand dollars, but what do you need tonnes of money sitting in an account for? What are you saving for. The rainy days come and go, you should enjoy the sunny ones and not wait for the rain. When I spoke to her today I realized how sad her life was and I felt pity for her that she let life just pass her by. Now turning 50 she has no one to share her joys and happiness with.