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Living my best life
A Moment of Peace
Starting 2025 on an Extraordinary Note
It’s 12:11 a.m. on January 1st, 2025. I am sitting in my bed. Snoring softly next to me is my spouse. Eleven minutes earlier, we toasted the new year and shared a delicious kiss before my sweetie immediately laid his head down and went to sleep in less than two minutes.
I drank my champagne, sipping the cold drink slowly. I was using nice glasses, so the bubbles were bubbling slowly up with the glass reflecting the television’s light. I was watching the various stunning fireworks from around the world.
My cat, Dark, was sitting on my lap, purring hard. I had my hand in his soft warm fur rubbing his tummy as he reached up to my face to pat my cheek with his paw. My husband, even though he was asleep, had reached across the bed and put his warm hand on my thigh as he snored.
Sitting there that night, in my bed at my house, at the beginning of a new year, with my cat on my lap and the love of my life lying next to me, I felt a moment of peace.
I don’t know what 2025 will bring but I know that for a moment, that moment, I was happy to be alive, next to the sleeping man that loved and cared for me and the cat that purred when he sat in my lap.
