Sometimes

Sometimes there's nothing better than the realization that you're smiling when you wake up because you just had a very happy dream.

Sometimes the dream involves people you've been missing, and now they don't feel quite so far away.

Sometimes the dream settles the anxiety you've been feeling over questions in your life, and now everything seems clear and right and you just know.

Sometimes conversations and events play out in the dream exactly as you would have them do in real life, and now possibility they might happen in real life doesn't seem so impossible.

Sometimes you remember the dream and wonder and hope, just for a second, that it's a memory and not a dream at all.

Sometimes the dream is all of those things, and even though you didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, that smile you have when you wake up lasts the whole day-- everything seems just a little bit brighter.