What I Know for Sure

In her magazine, Oprah likes to ask her interviewees, "What do you know for sure?" I've been thinking about that question the past few days.

This is a snippet of what I know that I know for sure:

1. How to grill
2. How to get over a broken or cracked heart
3. That life goes on

I am grateful that at 52 I can still laugh, love, trust, and believe in myself, in others, and in life. I am wise enough to know that heartaches are the risks you take for staying in the game. I am optimistic enough to believe in happy endings, despite much evidence to the contrary. I am trusting enough in my judgment and in life to pick myself up and get back in there. (Just don't ask me where "in there" is!)

What I know for sure is that "With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Strive to be happy.*

*Desiderata