Pressing On: happy happy happy (:

Ever been so happy you think you might explode? So completely, utterly, ridiculously joyful that you can't even sit still? It's that amazing feeling where you couldn't be upset if you tried. You find yourself smiling all the time. You don't really understand how you feel so invincible, but you just know that nothing in the world could bring you down!

Well, that is exactly how I feel lately.

I also feel that the word "happy" doesn't seem to cut it.

I'm blissful. Elated. Upbeat. Peppy. Delighted. Sparkling. Ecstatic. Jolly. Glad. Thrilled. Merry. On cloud nine. Cheerful. Perky. Upbeat. Jubilant. Content. I'm walking on air. (←thank you thesaurus.com for helpin' me out with some of those!)

I'm so over the top happy that sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy. Psycho. Insane. Nuts. Cracked. Mental. Bonkers. Wacky. Delirious. Batty. Like I'm losing my mind. (once again had to look up some synonyms for crazy... I should just start carrying a thesaurus everywhere I go, some words are so freaking cool and I forget about them all the time!)

But deep down, I know I'm not crazy. Not even close! It's just that I've finally started looking at life the right way. Recognizing God's glory and his awesome, marvelous plan in everything I do. Actually seeing the good things in myself, in other people, in the whole world. It's pretty sweet how much your outlook on life can change by just switching up your perspective. By choosing to be happy.

However, I know that's definitely not as easy as it sounds. It sure wasn't for me. And I know for a fact that I will go through low periods again where I will feel discouraged. But hey, that's life. Even just this past year has been such an outrageous series of up's and down's for me. But during the past few months, my life has taken a fabulous turn for the better. I made it out of the valley, and I'm on my way back up to the peak of the mountain. As a matter of fact, I like it so much up here, I might just try to stay for as long as I can. Up in the clouds. Floating. Nothing can get to me.

One thing I will mention though- it does help when God blesses you with some wonderful people at exactly the moment when you need them most. Right when I was struggling the most, I met someone who changed my life forever. I still can't get over it, this person knows just what I need to hear and every way to make me smile. I find myself just sitting in awe sometimes, trying to figure out when my life and my dreams decided to merge together to form the fairy tale that I'm living now. It's so hard not to be happy when I have everything I have ever wanted/needed. I really don't know where I would be right now if I hadn't met him, and I bet you 100 bucks that I wouldn't currently be writing a blog about how insanely happy I am! Ahhhh I just really might explode. I don't think I've ever had somebody bring me to the point of happy tears like he can. I'm head over heels. And as cliche as it sounds (I almost wanna gag when I type things like this..) I think my heart might beat out of my chest. Ha wow, I did actually just say all that. Best part is, I'm not even exaggerating :)

WOW. WOW. WOW.
just wow.

Life is good.