onegirl
Today I have decided to be happy. You only get one life and then you die. "Why not be happy in between?" I thought to myself. Being happy hurts no one and makes for a good life. As the others passed me by with their problems with work and the kids and house and their body and every other thing they could think of, I made a conscious decision to be happy.
Walls - big, looming and foreboding. The castle walls rose up in front of Marie. She thought of how she would scale them to escape the kingdom she had been trapped in for over 100 years. She searched for a foothold, a rope, a ladder, anything that would help her up and get her out.