Today I realized something very important. I have an incredible inner strength =]

I am completely emotionally healed and stronger than ever because I don't mind being alone. I have my whole life to find someone and if I never find them I don't want to have had spent all my time looking for that one. Love will find me or it won't... Cooper will come back if he wants me and if he doesn't then he doesn't and I don't mind if it isn't meant to be =]

Life has knocked me down so many times and I have always managed to pick myself up and dust myself off, even when it seems there's nothing left to stand for and no way to get past all the obstacles. I always manage to find a reason to keep moving forward and to be happy, but the best part about what's happened to me now is that I AM that reason, not someone or something else. My strength comes from ME =] I love me!

I didn't have to harden my heart either to accomplish this... which I find very peculiar. I'm not bitter or cold or distant; I'm still me, still nice and simple and steady... just don't cross me =]

I live for the moment now - the past is gone and the future does whatever it wants, so I live for the here and the now. Bring on the day =]