So I write a long happy story and hit submit and my computer crashed.
It’s been that kind of day.
I did our taxes today. The kids always seemed underfoot as I’m trying to find the paperwork for 1099s, I owe money to the feds and the state, and my allergy might be a cold.
So that doesn’t sound like the promising start to a happy story. But it is.
My wife took the kids out. I don’t have the taxes hanging over me. A contractor is coming in the morning to install badly needed new windows (caulking really can’t fix everything). I’m alive and free and relatively healthy.
And I’ve got Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma) on the TV lecturing to college kids about film making, religion, sex, comic books and life in general.
So my happy story is this and maybe it’s one to remember for the next three years. No matter how bad things might seem, hold on to the happy moments when you find them. They keep you sane. They remind you what you’re fighting for.
And though I rewrote my original happy story in five minutes after getting my computer back up and running, your story might be about anything you want it to be.