The Magic Day

Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are. -- Nkosi Johnson, Twelve-year-old Zulu boy, living with AIDS

In order to make someone else happy or convince myself that someday my life would, as if by magic, get better, I have put my life on hold.
I know now that it didn't work.

The magic day never came, and I was waiting and hoping for happiness that was never going to come.
I am worthy of being happy, of having people love me the way I want to be loved, and of making my own choices about what happens to me.

It's my life. Today I take it back.

Time to Break Free by Judith R. Smith