I Have Arrived

To finally recognize where you have been and what you have been doing with your life is a pretty good thing to experience. Awakening your senses is an experience akin to stopping to smell the flowers.
While dusting a shelf that displays pictures and nicknacks from my immediate and selective family members, my life and all that I am became clear. I had been raising my family and going to school commencing my student career at Richland College, a two years degree which took five or more to complete. Then getting accepted to the Meadows School of The Arts at SMU and even daring to do a masters at fourty six which by the grace of God I realized receiving a Masters In Fine Arts from the University of Dallas last may, it felt pretty good. I even counted, I have spent fifteen years persuing a higher education.
Looking at my chidren's pictures I became even more aware of my life's meaning, all the existential questioning ceased.
I smile at the photographs shouting into my empty nest words of affirmation.
I had arrived and had been made conscious of where and how.
By my willingness to listen and to be present I have created my own reality, my own world and in it I chose to extend a hand, to build bridges and to personally touch everyone I meet with a positive attitude and a kind spirit.