We live with what we can have

life begins at the very moment you stop living it for someone else.
happiness begins upon the realization that you are in fact the captain of your soul.
in a perfect world, all of us could live our own lives and attain happiness.
we wouldn't be like what we are now - preconditioned to live a life so limited that we are destined to nothing more but death.

but because this ain't a perfect world, we live with what we can have.
to each his own in figuring out what happiness really means.
personally, in the now, there are but a few things that i need.

a backpack. a good book.
a pair of sneakers. a map.
the world. 

and of course, love.

we are all forever wanderers.
and as we traverse each of our own roads, we each come to our own truths.
so one man's success, one man's happiness, one man's achievements
cannot be used to measure someone else's actions.
what we can do is only make sure that as we go on with our lives,
we live it to the fullest.

these are my truths:
i’m not good with hellos. i suck with goodbyes.
i'm mentally retarded. physically abused.
spiritually wanting; financially coping;
tragically and thankfully human.

and my ultimate truth of all,
God is nobody's property
you can read and interpret His book
but it does not make anyone better than somebody else.
and yes, let him who have not sinned cast the first stone!

Funny how we can pick some life lessons from  the unlikely. And I have Sir Ken Himura to thank when he said:

"If the truth could be discovered by winning one or two battles, then we'd all go through life without ever being wrong. A person's life isn't so simple a matter, that it isn't. The true answer is something you find out yourself by how you live your life from this day forward, that it is."