Oona Out of Order

by Margarita Montimore

Is this what it means to get older, replaying happy memories because the best times are behind you?

No year will be perfect. But I do think this year will be better if you have a little more love in your life.

Your life shouldn’t be about trying to prevent mistakes. Make mistakes, but learn from them and live with them.”

All good things end, always. The trick is to enjoy them while they last.

Stop micromanaging your life and just live it; joy and meaning will follow. Find the happy medium between being daring and responsible. Cultivate that balance. Do your best. Be good to yourself, even when—especially when—life isn’t being good to you.

There would be bad days, there always would. But she’d collect these good days, each one illuminated, and string them together until they glowed brightly in her memory like Christmas lights in a mirrored room.