My 7 Year Old Sage

Seeing me sad a lot over the past few months, my 7 year old finally told me that it was ok to be sad.  Then she lays this one me....

"Without sad there wouldn't be happy"

I looked at her blinking for probably 5 minutes.  Damned if she wasn't right.

My 7 year old has a deeper view of the world than I knew....and now she's dispensing her sage advice to her 36 year old mom....which is great actually.  So fine...I get it...in order to know what happy feels like I need to do the sad thing.  I'm totally accepting of that, really I am.  I'm just a little over feeling sad all.the.damned.time.  

 I want to find my happy.  Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever find that again.  It's a weird place to be in actually.  There are times I think I've found footing, only to realize that I was standing on quicksand, nothing stable.  And I'm really not the most patient person at all, I'll freely admit that.  So I want my happy *now*....