What is life about anyway?

You know when a certain event happens - maybe a birth or a death or a wedding of a loved one - and it encourages our hearts and minds to reflect on our own lives and we feel the need to improve? Or be a little different? Maybe it reminds us that life is short and we have to live it up? or that we were once as in love as the newly married couple?

Those events are nice to have. Those events are what 'life is all about' - or at least that's the popular saying.

But wouldn't it be nice if those major life events didn't have to happen for us to remember and internalize what life is all about? What if we just remembered? And lived our lives in accordance? That would be so wonderful. I believe the world would be a much more happy and loving place. At least my world would be.

There are times when the littlest things in life are what life is all about.

Life is about the times you laugh so hard you cry. And it's about beautiful views. And heartache. And work. Life is about driving in traffic and participating in the wonderful modern day blessings of our time - and feeling happy about it. Life is about feeling every emotion- happy, sadness, confusion and a crazy amount of love. Life is about exploring and being with friends but it's also about nights alone feeling sad that no one has called to invite you to participate. It is about improvement and giving second and sometimes third and fourth chances to the same person or potential achievement. Life is about loving yourself - or at least trying to and it's about forgiving yourself when you don't love yourself the way you should.

There are so many things that life is about.

I am thankful for the things that my life is about.

And right now I am feeling thankful for my family... life is about family.