Up for grabs

When I was a child people created the world around me and I had to live in it.

Sometimes it was magical. Sometimes it was terrifying. Often it was confusing.

When I became an adult I thought that was the way things worked and sometimes it is.

But I discovered that adults have a lot more options than children do, or at least I do.

I have the ability, and the responsibility, to make my world a lot safer, more interesting, more creative and more fun than I did as a child.

There are very few absolutes in my world now. I have to pay my bills and my rent, but the rest is pretty much up for grabs.

And I'm grabbing for the things that make me feel good about life.