It’s Life!

In life, shit happens. Everyone who has spent at least a decade on this planet knows that shit happens in life. It’s a fact. It’s common knowledge, but it doesn’t stop us from being caught up when the shit eventually happens. Nothing really prepares us for the shit.

It’s almost like life is a living entity with a mind of its own. Just when you think you’ve got a hang of life, it dangles the carrot in front of you long enough to exceed your predetermined threshold, and long enough for you to get carried away.

You think you’ve got a hang of relationships because you’ve lasted longer than your previous relationships by three months or six months? It almost feels like life can wait for however long it takes before it rains its usual shit.

How then do we win?

When it feels like the system is rigged against us, it feels like the first step should be trying to understand the system.

Maybe life is not a game where once you’re done with a level, you never encounter it again. What if the key to life is not in winning always but in never giving up? What if we didn’t need to be so hard on ourselves when we happen to fall for the same trick more than once (even though they didn’t exactly appear the same way). What if we could just enjoy every challenge life throws at us?

This doesn’t mean we won’t still feel sad and disappointed or heartbroken. These things are what makes us human and I’ll never try to suppress or discard them. The main meal is in how you deal with these human feelings. What do you do after you catch yourself feeling heartbroken?

Pick yourself back up and keep going. You have one job and that’s to not give up!