Today is my birthday!

I turned 28.

For breakfast, I ate gummy bears.

Everything tastes so much better on birth days.

As I welcome this day,

I celebrate the moments I have forgotten to see.

The gifts that aren't wrapped in fancy paper.

All those beautiful moments that remind me

How lucky I am to be here.

One such memory:

A day at the ocean.

We danced and watched crashing waves

Folding into the sandy shore.

Breathe in. 

Breathe out.

I wished I was swimming, 

Surfing between the waves.

I swam,

Somewhere else.

Let me be brave,

Said my thoughts,

Going beneath the surface

Cold. Cold. Cold water.

A gasp of air,  

Scuttling to shore

In hopes of outrunning the cold

But then laughing joyously before rushing back in.

One. 

More.

Time.