We are here, wherever that is. 

So how do we define where we are without comparing it to the past or the future?  I guess we just look around at what we have and compare it what we don’t have.  Not in a How big is your TV sense, but in some other sense.

I guess I mean how do I feel?

I feel good.  I’m certainly not rich, and I’m even further from wealthy.  I don’t have a big piece of land or stake of some sort.  I don’t have a new car, but the ones I do have seem to work.  I struggle with bills and the balancing of finances, but I make it.  I own my own business and an interest in another.  I am busier that I need to be, and my spare time is measured in minutes instead of days.  I’m not complaining.

I have family that loves me, and family I love.  They are close emotionally and geographically, and they are far as well.  Some call me Son, some call me Dad.

In these moments, I am here, right where I am.  I do the best I can to be the best I can in these moments.  It isn’t always easy, but at least I know how to tell.  When I look back at the last year and see what I have done or haven’t done, I smile.  When I look at the friends I have, the family I have, the life that I have, I realize I made it this way.  I am here because of where I was and what I did in those moments of choice.  I made a choice to be the best I can be.  When I look forward at what could be, I’m not too worried because I know how to deal with whatever comes along (Thanks Mom and Dad).

I am not perfect, I know this.  I am not always right, despite what I would like to believe sometimes.  I am certainly not the best.  But I try hard to be the best I can be.  Maybe that is the reason I am glad to look back and look forward in the context of where I am now instead of the other way around.

I am blessed, for lack of a better term, to have everything I have, to have created the mess I am in, and to enjoy being in it.

So this New Year will be whatever it is, and last year is gone.  I only have this moment to enjoy.

I guess what I am trying to say is Happy New Year, whatever you are doing is exactly what you should be doing, just do it the best you can.  It is working for me, I hope it works for you, and I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.  Based on what I know, it will be an adventure that tests my patience, causes me to question everything and then turn around and laugh about it all.

If you find yourself reading this, Happy Right Now.  I hope you get what you need, find what you want, and give what you can.