February 8

"Everything you can imagine is real." -Pablo Picasso

I never would have imagined I would have the courage to post everyday but I also never imagined I would have to bury two different friends before my 18th birthday. It's because of them that I feel encouraged enough to be posting this and there's nothing more real than the way their short lives have touched my own young life.

It's been easy to imagine how differently everything could be if I could have changed one small moment in the past. Just like it's easier to smile than frown, it's also easier to imagine the future than the past. I could talk about how I imagine us meeting again in the future and walking hand in hand into whatever awaits us after death but I believe life is for the living and there's plenty I imagine myself doing before death comes for me. 

All of the minuscule things that I have been imagining for years are finally starting to become real. Grad night, Prom, Graduation, College. All of the small moments that we imagine our entire lives are finally becoming real. As these dreams begin to play out it's time to begin imagining a new reality. A reality where I can touch the lives of others like I have allowed my own life to be touched. I imagine a life for myself that consists of nothing but spreading my own wealth and happiness and touching lives in the same way that Erica and Bree have touched mine in the short time they were on Earth with me.