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A College Student's Pursuit of Long-Term Happiness

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A College Student's Pursuit of Long-Term Happiness
Courtney Botteron

A short time ago, I was thinking about my dreams and about all the things I hope to one day accomplish. I’ve realized that none of these included obtaining massive amounts of money, owning a beauteous home, or even starting a career. Eventually, I will receive these things, but I will receive them when I’m ready.

When I think about myself being happy, I’m talking about the moose track ice cream kind of happy. The kind of happy that deserves to make a big deal out of itself. I always retrieve back to the same image, the kind of image that demands to be a commercial on a hit indie film. I have realized that this image wont be my dream for long but as I stand now this is my dream, it would also serve as my most exquisite,and beautiful day.

Without further ado my dream is this. I want to drive along the highways of anywhere, somewhere, alone. In a bright yellow 2016 jeep wrangler with the top off on a mid summers day in July at approximately six in the morning where the world is still but my heart is warm and filled passion. I want to be able to make motions with one of my arms outside the window as the music takes me to places I’ve never been before while the other arm turns the steering wheel with not a worry or a care in the world. I want to be able to bask in all the glory that is what we call our world. I want to stop on random highways and write about what I see and hear. I want to make a new stranger laugh at every single turning point, I want to take photographs of new and exciting people, I want too laugh and I want too laugh so loudly the world laughs with me. I want to initiate happiness on every road that is filled with traffic, I want to be able to sing my songs at the absolute tops of my lungs without a care as to whom is listening. I want to be able to stop anywhere that I find beautiful; I want to sleep in my car with nothing but a blanket. I want to wake up at the crack of dawn with nothing but a smile.

As stated before, this dream could be seen on any indie film and sounds as cliché as all be all. Honestly speaking though, none of that matters to me . All that matters to me now is my happiness.

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