You know when I was younger I used to be on the quest for happiness. I would watch bloopers at the end of every movie, see that they were all laughing and desperately wanted in.
So I did what any young teenager would do, and I once again dreamt of being an actress with a penthouse apartment in New York, on first-name basis with the flight attendants at LAX and making it rich.
It didn't quite happen that way. Instead, I ended up dressing in Colonial Costumes from the 1920's and being part of a web series then travelling a couple of hours to be part of a local music video, which involved standing around a pool for about half an hour, waiting for hours on either side pretending to have fun with the other hundred people I didn't know. I didn't even make it on screen.
Life doesn't work out the way you think it will, and you don't find happiness the way you imagine, but life can throw you some pretty great adventures along the way.
I probably never will make it as an actress considering I don't even really know the story of Romeo and Julie (and yes we studied it in Grade 11 English) but I can make everybody laugh with a pretty epic story about a cow jumping over a fence 😃
I'm learning that happiness isn't always found in the climax of the great big adventures that may only occur when you win the lotto as the 5th cousin 9 times removed from the Queen, but by finding a way within every day to make other people smile along with you and even making them laugh.
My advice is to enjoy the day ahead of you no matter what you're faced with, to find ways to smile along the way and to make sure you look up at the clouds once in a while and appreciate the ones that look like dragons blowing fire (they can look pretty cool)
Oh, and don't forget to dance sometimes when you're stopped at traffic lights.... I guarantee it will make people laugh! xox