Is it all about life, love and the pursuit of happiness?

I thought at one point in time it was all about love and living for all the wonderful things in this world, and that that journey would bring us through to happiness.  Nowadays, though, I think it’s more the fact of just trying to survive and getting ourselves through.  I miss being in love and living for the next moment.  I miss the happiness that came from just being with someone and being the one person they wanted to be with.  I miss the way things used to be, and how they should be now.

Lately, all around me, everyone is falling in love.  Either for the first time, or all over again.  I have in the past year, known four people who have gotten engaged and married.  Two others who have gotten engaged, and probably about 10 others that have fallen into a ‘perfect’ relationship.  I, on the other hand, can’t seem to get a guy to want me for me for longer than a week.

I love watching all the love and joy that others have for their loves.  It gives me hope that one day, I might be there again.  As I sit and think, and realize how close I am to being ‘middle aged’, I wonder…  Will I get to experience this wonderful feeling called love again?  Will I get to live again?  When will my pursuit of happiness come again?

Then I realize, I have two wonderful kids, and they are my life, love and my pursuit of happiness.  When I look into their blue eyes, and see the wonder and joy, that the little things bring them, and all the trials and tribulations that I go through with them, sometimes on a daily basis.  It makes everything okay.

So, yeah, I don’t have a man in my life that I can hold onto in the middle of the night, I do have a cat that sleeps on my other pillow.  I don’t have a man to kiss me good night and tell me he loves me.  I do have a daughter who gives the best hugs and tells me good night every night.  I don’t have a man around the house to fix all the odd and ends, to burp and fart and make a general man of himself, oh wait, I have a son for that!

So, what have I discovered over the past several days, as I sit here in a stupor and think that my life hasn’t been complete, because I am not in love with the perfect man?

Well, a cat will love you, no matter what and you don’t have to boost their egos.  There is nothing better than a daughters love and a son’s bodily functions.

It is all about Life, Love and the pursuit of happiness…just in our own ways.

Go out there and love the ones you love.

Live like you wanna live.

Pursue the things that make you happy!