[ WP ] Show that you can live a beautiful life in a not-so-beautiful ( or bland/ugly/horrid ) place .

I remember my childhood home out in the mountains of Colorado. I remember the streams, the hills, the snow and the wildlife. I remember not being grateful for how beautiful of a place my home was. 
 
 I remember scoffing at my parents concerns about moving to the big city. I did n't care about their worries about air quality, the people or the monotonous amounts of gray in this city. 
 
 Now I sit in my cramped `` studio'' apartment and I'm grateful for the beauty all around me. The cracks in my ceiling are more beautiful then any stream I ever saw back home. I look forward to climbing the stairs up to this tiny apartment more than any hike up those rolling hills back home. Even the cockroaches and mice that keep me company are more magnificent then any deer, fox, bear or wolf I saw back home. 
 
 My family visited me recently. They were appalled by my living conditions, they begged me to come back to the ranch in Colorado and they left a few days earlier then they initially planned. 
 
 I could n't disagree more. This place is beautiful for one simple reason. I'm living my own life and I'm living my dream. 
 
 I'm forging my own trail.
