Smorgasbord: a buffet offering a variety of cold and hot meals. Smorgasbord is my new favorite word, mostly because as a person who learned English as a second language it's tough for me to say. I stuttered for a time trying to get it right, but I think I've got it. SMOOORGASBOOORD! The perfect word to describe life if your hate oysters. "The world is your oyster" Okay.... What do I even do with that? What does that mean? Do I eat it? What if I'm allergic to Oysters? Such questions remain unanswered so now "The World is Your Smorgasbord" It's an endless array of possibilities and opportunities. Chances to fail, but also the chance to succeed. It's the chance of love at first sight or an endless array of heartbreak. It's a chance at ending up in a crappy 9 to 5 that has nothing to do with what you majored in, or the chance to do what you love. Every morning that we wake up we take a chance on life because honestly you don't have to do anything. You can wallow away in bed all day hoping to die sooner or later. When you get up no matter the circumstance you're basically taking the chance offered to you by the universe or God or the forces of Dharma or whatever and saying NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY, TODAY IS THE DAY THAT XY and Z happens. ...... If only right? The sad truth is that chances are you groggily drag yourself out of bed, into the shower, into the kitchen and out the door thinking "damn it do we really have to do this again?" Everyone has the thing they dread in the morning. Bills, paperwork, early morning classes, the ex they don't want to see anymore but they just can't seem to avoid. Maybe it's the cops. I dunno your situation. I'm just here to tell you. "THE WORLD IS YOUR SMORGASBORD!" An endless array of options, twist and turns, and life changing decisions. Yet we neglect the biggest decisions of our lives every morning: How we choose to approach the day. Look I've always heard that happiness is a choice and yeah maybe it is but sometimes you're just not happy. Shit happens, people die, hearts break, friends leave, homes foreclose. I'm here to tell you can't be unhappy because that's ridiculous. But you can choose how you look at the situation. SHIT HAPPENS! Stuff that's out of our control happens but we have the power to choose he we respond. We can either break down and never get back up or we can cry into our pillows like little kids and then wake up in the morning ready to approach life like a badass. And I get that it's a lot to ask. Which is why you start when life hasn't hit you with the hard knocks. If you're gonna let your morning be clouded over because your coffee pot broke, what'll happen when your car breaks down? Shall you just stop living. We have to go one guys. We have to be strong. Because if we don't we'll end up missing all the wonderful things that life has to offer. I'll leave you all with this: "Isn't it marvelous to think that the best days of our lives have yet to happen?"