Day 229

Day 229: On March 15, 2005, my life was forever changed. On March 15, 2005, I received a telephone call that no one ever wants to get, and from that moment onwards I became a different person. When I was a kid I would say I was whimsical, imaginative, a dreamer. I used to want to grow up and work for Disney, I daydreamed, I didn't worry much about what tomorrow would bring, and I'd say I was a pretty happy-go-lucky person. After that telephone call on March 15, 2005, that world was shattered. In the months and first few years after that telephone call I became withdrawn, pessimistic, somewhat cynical, and depressed a lot of the time. The world that I thought I knew and I thought I was part of suddenly changed significantly. It's been ten years. Ten years of growth, change, repositioning, reframing, reimagining, and healing. Ten years to slowly evolve into a person that I'm happy to wake up in the morning and be, ten years to learn to be excited about the future again, and imagine it bigger, better and brighter than I thought possible. In the last ten years I've grown and learned so much. I've become a stronger person than I thought I ever could be. Though there is not a single day that passes where I don't think of him, miss him, and wonder what life would have been like, ten years later I can finally say yes, I'm going to be better than okay. I'm going to be Happy. #DBM #365happydays

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