Life Doesn’t Have to be Perfect to be Wonderful*

Life is full of ups and downs and sideways glances.
Life is the rich, the poor and everyone else in between.
Life is a lottery of where you were born, how your parents raised you, and the surrounding environment that you grew up in.
Life is the choices you make, the friendships you form, and the relationships you develop.
Life is standing up to bullies and helping others less fortunate.
Life is heart warming and heart breaking.
Life is ecstasy and frustration.
Life is filled with laughter and anger.
Life is unnecessarily comparing yourself to everybody else.
Life is knowing that when you come upon a fork in the road, take it.
Life is wondering out loud if you could ever reach your potential.
Life is doubting your own abilities when things go wrong.
Life is thinking you’re the best when things go right.
Life is what you do with the hand that is dealt to you.
Life is not perfect.
But life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.
And life is most wonderful when I spend it with you.

- *the exact words that were said to a couple of Home Depot customers by a cheery grey-haired man with a radio voice that sounded too much like Santa.
