"Starting the Day"

The Legacy Letters
By Carew Papritz

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil-made cough syrup.

Because somehow along the way we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals-or just good ideas.

And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.