Breathe in, breathe out....
The longer I live, the more I come to understand. Life isn't a given. Life isn't owed to you. You might be a great person, live a long and prosperous life and die happy. Then again, you might be a real dick, treat everyone around you horribly, and die alone. Sometimes bad things happen to good, young people. And also, sometimes good things happen to bad, nasty people! You are probably somewhere in the middle, and some days, you think you are stuck. The time or age of your death does not equal your worth in life.
That grand philosophy was free, courtesy of, yeah, me - it's MY blog, right?!?! Want more? I believe FIRMLY that you should take advantage of every, single, rotten, sweet, yummy, yuckky moment of your life. Even in those times when you think you would rather die than take another breath...do it. Those moments when it feels like there is nothing to live for...you would be surprised. I hate to use, as Aaron would call it, 'another fortune cookie sign,' but I do like this one very much: "To the world, you might just be one person...but to one person, you just might be the world."
Sometimes life gets hard. Some times life gets really, really, f'in hard. But, seriously in the grand scheme of things, that's just life. You can't really appreciate the joys unless you know the sorrows. Those are just the way of things. In the way of life, you meet those who have AND haven't traveled the same paths, and don't share the same experiences. That's fine. We can all learn from each other and maybe even spare some of the pain knowing that someone else has been there, too. We should all learn to lend that ear, whether or not we know the pain. And most importantly, whether or not we (or they) think we need it. We're all in this together, people. You have no idea how sometimes a fleeting conversation in the strangest of places might change your life forever.
Happiness, that's just so easy to share. But there needs to be more of that, too. Laughter is the best medicine...when appropriate. Most often it's hardest to see the humor in a situation than it is to see the inconvenience. Trying to feed four kids 5 and under, yeah, there is a TON of this kind of thing in my life. But what kind of memories do we want? Perfect example: having fun assembling your own tacos (spilling cheese and what-not on the floor in the process) and loving every single, messy, cheese-and-lettuce-on-the-floor-bite...then, asking for seconds. Life is messy, but still pretty g-d'd good most of time, especially when your perspective is right (on days they aren't, serve something else for dinner).
To get serious for the moment, my grandpa's brother John passed away. One of the very few surviving elder relatives I have anymore. My best wishes go out to his family. If you want more details, let me know. It makes me miss all of my loved ones who have gone all the more. For more reasons than I could ever type out tonight. All I can say is, the longer I live, the more I come to understand that life sucks for people a lot of the time. You can't change that fact. There is always something that sucks, and always days that make you wonder way too hard. But life is also a lot of what you make of it. Life is too short. Waaaayyy tooo short.
Breathe in, breathe out.....move on!!!!!!!!! (I'm totally cheating, it's just such a great song with wonderful lyrics by my favorite singer!)
