Sheryl Crow was right...

It's a strange feeling.  It came over me this morning, and it's lasted most of the day.  I guess I just need to say it....

I love my life.

Sure, it's cliche, and people say it alot.  Today, I really feel it, and I don't feel that way often enough. 

I was raised pretty poor in an abusive, destructive household.  It's not my motivation for improving my life and it's not an excuse to be self-destructive.  It's just a fact.  The point to telling you this is because now I have more.  I have a wife, and a daughter.  I have a decent job.  I have this nice laptop to talk to you fine folks.  I have my Xbox 360 with tons of games.  I have more than my parents and my grandparents combined ever thought of having, and I still want more.  It's part of our generation I suppose.

But today, I woke up in a tent in the woods with my daughter and wife.  We took a nice walk through the trees.  We headed out and went to church.  We came home to cook a decent dinner.  I played  my guitar for my daughter, and then we sat down and played FFCC: My Life as a King on the Wii together.  My best friend called me to go out and shoot some pool, and my wife gave me a knowing look that she trusted me to go out, stay out, as long as I wanted to.  She trusts me.  I trust her.  I came home at 1 AM looked in on them both, and blew them a kiss.  Then, sat down to type it all out.

All in all so ordinary that most people probably didn't read that last paragraph.

I've made the life I want, and I'm not here to brag about it.  I'm still poor by the standards of the world.  I don't make a lot of money, but I'm proud of the work I do.  I'm happy.  Most importantly, I'm content.  Things only have the value that you give them, and I feel pretty rich with what I have.

With all the complaining we all do everyday, I just wanted to say that once.  

Sheryl Crow was right...."It's not having what  you want.  It's wanting what you got."