Whoever Said Sunshine Brings Happiness...
While we’re sort of on the topic of embarrassing things that have been fossilized in my high school yearbook (like THIS ONE), let me tell you what my senior quote was:
Whoever said sunshine brings happiness never danced in the rain.
Cue eyeroll. I know.. I’m embarrassed. Present-day Kat would have chosen something dark and mysterious like “I got my own back” by Maya Angelou, and looked very cool doing it. But that’s all it would be-- looking cool. Because I’m not that cool. I’m actually incredibly corny and annoyingly insistent that there is beauty in absolutely everything (even awful movies, as discussed HERE). So, embarrassing or not, if I was a quote, this is the one I would be. That being said, I was very excited when I watched this quote come to life and prove itself to be literally true last weekend.
It was my college roommate’s wedding and she had planned a gorgeous, outdoor event in Florida. Assuming there would be typical January Florida weather (warm and sunny), she created a spectacular dance floor below twinkle lights, a chandelier, and the real life twinkle lights in the sky. But the week leading up to the big day was worrisome. Thunderstorms popped in and out of the forecast making us all dance, pray, and bargain with the heavens for a clear night. She wavered about covering the dance floor with a tent, but in a last minute decision, she had faith that an open floor would be beautiful with or without rain and decided on no tent.
It was my college roommate’s wedding and she had planned a gorgeous, outdoor event in Florida. Assuming there would be typical January Florida weather (warm and sunny), she created a spectacular dance floor below twinkle lights, a chandelier, and the real life twinkle lights in the sky. But the week leading up to the big day was worrisome. Thunderstorms popped in and out of the forecast making us all dance, pray, and bargain with the heavens for a clear night. She wavered about covering the dance floor with a tent, but in a last minute decision, she had faith that an open floor would be beautiful with or without rain and decided on no tent.
The cocktail hour arrived, and with it came the dreaded, uninvited guest-- torrential rain-- so we moved inside. After the rain had one too many cocktails, it thankfully moved on to crash someone else’s party, so when it was time for the bride and groom to make their grand entrance, the air was warm and clear. The music started, and as if on cue, down poured the confetti. And when I say confetti, I mean some of the heaviest raindrops I’ve ever seen. The sky was very moved by the beautiful dance floor apparently, because it was crying harder than anyone. It was the kind of rain that brought Noah and Ali back together in The Notebook; the kind that hurts a little bit when it bounces off you. But there was beauty in the downpour! The bride and groom didn’t run for the dinner tent. Instead, they stretched their arms out, laughed at the sky, and pulled each other in for the most romantic first dance there ever was and ever will be.
Where were the 150 guests during this magical moment, you ask? Warm and dry under the dinner tent, that’s where. We all rushed forward to get a better view of the dance, and then strategically stopped at the tent’s limit. There were a few whispers of, “should we go out there and get wet with them?” but we all came to a quiet consensus that this was their moment and we shouldn’t take that away from them… and also, like… they’re really wet.
Anyways, the bride and groom proved that literally “Whoever said sunshine brings happiness never danced in the rain.” But they also proved this quote to be true in a less literal sense. There is not just one way to be happy. Just because the moments of your life don't shimmer in the sun like you always dreamed they would, doesn’t mean that what you get isn’t amazing. Who wants generic, sunny happiness, anyway? The life you get is yours. And that's the beauty.
Love Love Love,
Kat
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