Life is startling, unpredictable. Amazing.

Have you ever wondered, what it might be like.....

To make a friend when you were just a little kid, so small, so long ago. To have gone to each other’s houses for one another’s birthday party. Mucking around, running after, chasing each other, making lots of noise, doing all the stuff that little kids do.

Then life gets too busy, we go our separate ways. To have tried to keep in contact. For things to get in the way. To have life tear us apart. To forget each other.

To grow up.

And then to find each other again, in the same secondary school, so different yet so the same as what we were before. Getting the funny feeling, that lasted just a flicker of a second, that we’ve seen each other before, but not really able to put our finger on it.

To have our parents tell us about all we did together last time. When we were too small to remember anything. To have a tiny, miniscule, microscopic fragment of those memories left.

To make friends all over again.

I know now what that feels like. It feels amazing. It feels as if life has found new meaning.

It takes your breath away.

And I guess that the only thing that this proves is, even though life sometimes can get rough, gloomy, so bleak.....

Life is still so startling, so unpredictable. So amazing. Life is one crazy ride, and you’ll never know where it might take you.

So laugh you heart out. Dance in the rain. Cherish the moment. Ignore all the pain. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Forgive and forget. Life is too short to be living with regrets. Live your life like there’s no tomorrow.

Because no matter what, life is.....

Beautiful.