welcome to your life

do you ever feel you are not living the life you wished for when you were 5yrs old.how about what you wished when you were 18.i know priorities change,geography changes and we change.but some times life changes us.in small ways,big ways.i know that something shifted in me when my Dad died,9 months after my friend Kathy died.i feel as if i carry my heart a little differently.i just read a blog where someone wrote about how we change in our lifetime,how we stay the same.it just made me pause and reflect.i have a friend who is gravely ill ,another who will have a baby in a few weeks.both those events make a difference in my life but not much in yours.how totally odd yet balanced our life is even when we don't see it that way.siena and i have been reading the Dali Lama,can you tell.life is all about balance.we can have all the things we think we need in our life and still not be happy.think of what made you happy when you were little.a loving family(i didn't say they weren't crazy)one or two friends to play with who liked to play what we did,not being hungry and an occational icecream or cookie.life was simple.simple is good.have a simply good day