And here I am quoting my bestie, Angela Kuehl, founder of Essence Wellness Design. She also took this picture. She is extra talented. 

She said this sometime last month, and it has been knocking around my head ever since: “We’re all standing at the edge of a new dream.” 

It occurred to me how many of my dreams have actually come true. If you’ve been following me here for a while, you may be thinking that the dreams I mean are book-related, and those exist. 

But I was actually thinking about a moment I was daydreaming in my high school history class, and I thought: I really want to have a close friend that I can love all my life. 

And I don’t just have one of those. 

I have several. 

I lucked out in middle school and collected a bunch of lifelong friends.

You can dream up things like that for yourself. Something that you want, which others might say is improbable—or even downright impossible. 

You can dream up a life, and then you can find a way to live it exactly how you dreamed it. 

If you are thinking, gosh, but times are so hard now for dreaming, I hear you. I feel that too sometimes. 

But I was daydreaming about lifelong friends in history class in roughly 2001, around the same time 9/11 happened. We said the same thing about dreaming then. 

Things can escalate. The world’s pain can intensify. We’ve all experienced that together. 

But in those moments, that’s exactly when it helps to reach for what makes life worth living. 

Originally posted on 3/23/22.