A good decade

I just realized last night that my life has been improving rapidly since I turned twenty. I hated my teenage years. This is going to be such a great decade for me! I am so happy with life all the time. I walk around in constant amazement at the beauty surrounding me. I appreciate every day. Every day is a choice. You can choose to say "this is a bad day" and it will be...you will feel angry and crappy all day. If you choose to say "this is going to be a good day" it will be! Obstacles that would have phased you had you made the choice to have a bad day, do not phase you when you choose to have a good day. Your mood is a choice and the only one who feels the anger is you. Anger is not fun so why have it for a whole day? Life goes much better when you choose to be happy. The improvement of my life has accelerated even further since I declared my major as English. I finally know what I want to do. I feel like I have found my place and I am working toward a goal that is not marriage. The idea of marriage scares me. I can wait until after grad school, but I'm not going to completely close myself off in the mean time, just in case. It's nice to be focused on a goal that is all my own. It sounds selfish, but I deserve to be selfish at this point. I can totally see why optimists tend to live longer. I love my new life as an optimist! I may get let down more, but at least I allow myself to feel emotion. Before this gets too profound, I'm going to stop.