happily ever after

I have always known that I wanted to write, I never really thought that I would be writing a blog, but I knew that one day I was going to write a book.  The book was going to be about my adventures in dating, as I have some pretty wonderful stories; some of the highlights include: the guy I am dating moves to another continent; while at the home of the guy I am dating another girl comes over and kisses him (but I am not supposed to me mad); and maybe the most hysterical is a guy going crazy because I barrowed my friends potato masher (yep, potato masher).  I could go on and on, thus why I thought a book about my adventures in dating would be a best seller!  I haven’t written this book yet because I wanted to wait for my happy ending; when I ride off into the sunset with prince charming… but who says that is a happy ending?

While lying in bed last night thinking about what I was going to write today I was thinking about my happy ending, and what I wanted it to be.  I, like many women my age, have a pintrest board dedicated to a wedding that I may not have; you see I am not engaged- shocker! I believe like many people my age, we look to the wedding as the happy ending, and we don’t see much past that moment.  I know at some point I want to have my own kids, so wouldn’t they also be part of my happy ending? 

I am lucky to have parents that are still married and I know that they still love each other.  Even when my sister and I look at my mom and question what she ever saw in our father (LOVE YOU DAD!).  Is what my parents have happily ever after?  I have had the opportunity to talk to my parents about what some of the happiest days in their lives were, and they don’t say their wedding.  Yes they enjoyed it and they are glad they got married, but this was just the beginning to the next chapter of their lives; they are still working on living happily ever after.

So why is it that I feel the need to hold off on a project that I have always wanted to do until I am married, so my book has a happy ending?  And who says that my happy ending is going to happen at 27, maybe I will be 97 before I can look back on my life as say that my story was a good one, and that I have lived my happy ending not just waited for it to happen. 

As of today, I am making a promise to myself to live my happy ending.  I am going to do what I want to do when I want to do it, I am not going to wait for prince charming to take me away and have that moment be the start of the rest of my life – the rest of my life starts now.  What have you been waiting to do? Are you not going  back to school because you feel like you are too old- is your age stopping you from living you happily ever after; or are you hesitant to make a big change in your life because you are waiting for prince charming to make the change with you.

You have the power to write your own story and you can end it any way you want to, and you have the power to decide when the next chapter begins.  My next chapter started today, when I decided that I don’t need a prince charming to make my life complete; I am pretty awesome and I am certain that my prince will need me in his life just as much as I will need him in mine.  My prince is only going to enhance my story, not complete it.

 How is your next chapter going to start?

You have it all & Confidence,

Lyndsay