How do I know?

In my life, what I truly want are simple things that most people do - to be happy, to be safe, to love greatly and to be loved greatly...and now I have to wonder, what if I'm living the dream? What if the things I've always wanted for myself are here now, and I've been so busy focusing on what I didn't have that I haven't been able to see what's already there? Most of us spend our lives thinking we need what we see in movies, read in books,see in other people, and some of us start to think that it isn't real, that life doesn't work that way. What I want from you is to look again, really look. See where you are, see what you have, look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you don't already have what you dreamed you could. Don't put stupid obstacles or preconcieved notions about what should be in your way... just look. Just because it isn't recognizable in the shape that we always imagined it would come in doesn't mean it isn't there. I don't know... I think that maybe I've been looking for the wrong things for a long time now. Or looking in the wrong way. I'm going to try to start looking again.