“May you…..”

So folks, Sarah and I always believe in the power of the spoken and written word. Since the month of May is wrapping up, here are the wishes we would like to come true. We suggest you write down your own wishes for May, too. Feel free to take what you liked below to fit your own circumstances when you write your own wishes. Happy wishing!

For my family. May you find happiness in life every single day.  Not to look for an external landmark to finally say to yourself, “I’m happy,” but to have it every single day of your lives. May you always push toward success and realize your dreams, but without forgetting it’s truly the journey that counts.

May we help each other when we fall, celebrate when we succeed, and encourage when we feel disheartened. May we always be connected, whether we talk or not. May we always be supportive and strong in faith. May we always be grateful for the blessings. May we treasure smiles, adventures and misadventures, and moments of just being there for each other, because we know presence is priceless.

For my friends

May you happily create your path. May I be a better, supportive friend. May we strengthen our bonds through the years. May we learn from the bad times. May we mature together. May we learn from each other. May we never forget each other’s birthdays. May we never compete but always encourage our individuality. May we call each other randomly to say, “Hello” and “I miss you.” May we keep creating inside jokes. May I re-tweet your truth, like your status, and re-blog your thoughts. May we always listen and understand. May we never judge each other. May we always dance to good music and cheer to great laughs.

For my significant other. May we never take each other for granted. May we always inspire each other. May we always keep what’s real to us. May we always smile from across the room. May we always reinforce each other’s values. May we always talk at the beginning and end of each day, to share what we’ve gone through and what we’ve learned. May we always enjoy a great meal together. May we never pretend. May we make room for each other’s faults. May we always help carry each other’s load. May we always motivate each other’s growth. May we always be thoughtful. May we keep dreaming.

For my enemy. May we forgive each other.

For the country.  May you further discover the beauty that lies in you. May you heal from the past. May you attract the right people who want to help you. May you be yourself always. May we do what we can to take care of you, promote you, sustain you, and nurture you. May we add more value to your soil. May we spend more time in your islands. May we learn from your history to create a better future. May we understand and preserve your culture better. May we always find ourselves coming back to you. May you never give up on us.

For myself

May you be open-minded for the next few chapters in your life. May you look back in kindness. May you learn to swallow your pride and be open to the lessons life will throw you. May you realize that one level of success is not an end-all, but a starting point, so keep improving yourself. May you always write what your heart will say. May you always express yourself truthfully.

May you boldly claim what you want your life to be. May you be brave to do what you think you cannot do. May you keep moving forward. May you always give back to the people who helped you, and to the people who need help. May you always keep your perspective real. May you always have a clear mind. May you keep going, even though some days are difficult. May you listen to your intuition. May you stay passionate about your life. May you always stay in faith.

May all of this come true.

Love,

V

I’m an odd mixture of the defiant and the debilitated at the moment, so you’ll pardon the departure from Vicky’s well-thought out and seamless piece, and hopefully kerplunk into mine without losing the point of what we would love you to do, which is to make your May wishes.

I just need to break the mold sometimes. (It’s a problem.)

May I?

May I take the time to sit propped up in bed at 1:55 in the morning, to tell you that if you are younger than I am, truth is, life doesn’t really get easier? You just learn to deal with hardships with more grace and wisdom as time goes by. Pain still hurts, and confusion is still real, and sometimes things still fall apart no matter how convinced you are that your heart was enough to keep it together. But falling in love still tingles, and laughter is still contagious—and though things from the past seem smaller the older you get, truth is, it’s the little things that hold weight.

Still.

May you be blessed with the ability to face it all with your head held high and a smile on your face, despite the fact that the gravity of life often seems hell-bent on pulling your shoulders down. What’s that quote about the number of muscles it takes to frown?

May I also be so brazen as to tell you you’re not dreaming big enough? Granted, I don’t know all of you, and you might have an elaborate plan that supersedes anything I could devise or comprehend, but I’ll take a chance and say that you can go further, go harder, be stronger, love better, fall better, rise steadier, heal deeper, move faster, breathe slower, act braver.

May you find your way and become a light that helps others find theirs.

Again.

Mama, I’d love to remind you that when you face the light, shadows fall behind you, and that you deserve to play in the sun. May I?

Albert, everyone knows you’re smarter and more talented than I am. May you identify whatever it is that’s preventing you from sharing that with the world, and set it on fire.

Banjo and Kaya, may I spend the rest of my life loving you with a consistency that propels us toward everything we pray for in the car every morning, and in bed at night.

May those whom I dedicate my life to, know so.

Always.

May I put my hand on your shoulder and have you sit down

Bend your head in reflection when I take off your crown

May I play you a song that you might have never heard

Help you find my story in a song with no words.

May we reach out in the dark and instead of groping for whatever’s there

Know to stay loyal and royal so that we may receive the lion’s share.

—S.