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Manning up

It's easy to look at the negatives in life. Look at your age, where you wanted to be at this stage in life, where you actually are in life, did you want to be married by this point? Did you want to have lots of kids? Have a mortgage and, most of all, be happy?
I'm not married, I'm a single parent, I don't have a mortgage, I'm not where I wanted to be in life at all. But am I happy?
Every day I'm scared. Something new comes every day which is different and way out of my comfort zone. Maybe the approach I'm taking to them now are wrong compared to how I dealt with things a few years ago.
I look at what I've done the past year and where I am now. I didn't get upset when I came out of hospital a single parent. I took the opportunity to have a fresh start. I found a house where my son and I could be happy, it's close to my family which is all I could ask for. I made it a home.
I may not be married, but I have friends I class as family who are always there for me, I have loving parents who help me no matter what. I now have a neice, thanks to my beautiful sister, who Cory and I love so very much.
So am I happy? How can I not be!? Despite everything, I have love surrounding me from all angles. That means more to me than anything else.

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