What do I do during a mandatory quarantine? I daydream about my future. I think about Arizona and how beautiful it is, and I think about the purest perfect love that waits there for me. I create Pinterest boards full of details for the dream home and a yard full of flowers with citrus trees and an outdoor fireplace we will build together. I think of how forever is going to feel when I wake up with my head nestled in the nook of my Sunshine's protective arm every single morning while I listen to the soft steadiness of his heartbeat before he gets up to make our coffee. I dream of the projects we're going to work on together and the laughs that we are going to share. I dream of the nights we'll venture to a random new spot to watch the sunset and the other nights we'll stay in to watch our favorite movies for the hundredth time. I dream of slow dancing with him in the living room to our favorite songs. I listen to the ever-growing playlist of music that seems to define our insane yet amazing story and reality. It keeps me grounded. I think about how happy I have become over the last six months when just prior to that, I felt I had lost myself forever. I never thought I would really be found, yet here I am. I know that while things may never be exactly the same in this world as they were before, it doesn't mean they can't be better. The sun still shines every morning and the birds still sing. The trees still blow in the breeze and they're blossoming with the flowers because it's spring. This year did not start out the way any of us thought that it would... It has forced all of us to get back to basics and the simplest things in life. It has forced us to work together and love one another, help one another, and appreciate everything that we probably subconsciously took for granted before. When all we have to do is sit and think or find positive things to occupy our time, it's kind of sweet because it means that life has slowed down drastically from how quickly it was moving before. That's not always a bad thing. Every situation has a silver lining no matter how faint it may seem...and it shines brighter than ever depending on the light cast upon it. Silver is durable...and so are we. - Sher