Oona Out of Order

by Margarita Montimore

Make your life more about letting in the good things than preventing the bad things.

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.

But there was a freedom in making mistakes, feeling broken, falling into the void, and then climbing out. A freedom in letting go, setting aside, moving on.

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.