I feel amazing this morning.

I’m not sure exactly why—I’ve usually been getting out of bed begrudgingly, getting my breakfast, spending the first half of the day on the computer, spending the second half of my day painting or making jewelry, ending the day off with some TV and some reading, and going to bed wishing I was somewhere else, with everyone else, spending my summer just as they are.

But yesterday, I spent a good portion of the day on the phone with people I hadn’t talked to in over a week. And when hearing of them and everyone else’s lives at the current moment, it was insane how changed everyone’s summers have become. A problem with a boyfriend and relationships in general, dealing with disease, serious family troubles, and one friend currently in a mental institution—the list goes on. It just makes me almost fortunate that I’m here, stuck in one spot, unaffected by similar things in my own life, since my own is somewhat at a stand-still. I wake up every morning unchanged, and with an unchanged life from the day before. 

And for once, I’m seeing it as kind of a good thing.