In my future, there are no dollar signs or weekend getaway trips to Paris or Greece. I won’t have expensive clothes, runway heels, or diamond trinkets around my neck and fingers. I won’t have a wine cellar, I probably won’t even have a pool, matter fact or a two car garage. My cellphone will always be two years old, I’ll still wear the same chucks I had since I was 18, and nothing plasma or flat screen will be inside my home.

I’m a simple woman. I don’t need things that shine and sparkle to make me feel important. I don’t want your money, I don’t want anything that is new and I don’t want my need for success be aimed toward gaining items out of luxury. I grew up with nothing, and I am happy with nothing.

We assume happiness comes in dollar signs, that getting a large chain and a car that’s a limited edition will put your world in a Utopia. Maybe for some of you that’s the case, but for me - that’s misery. My happiness comes in tattered up shoe laces, worn down t-shirts, dressers that creak, used car’s with a history, and blankets that were passed down by generations.

I don’t want my name in lights, I don’t want my world to be high class. I just want to say on my final days that the most happiest I’ve ever been, was when I only owned a camera and a pair of chucks, and truly mean it.