Life can be a real bitch.
It seems to me that life is all about momentum. When you have your shit together, good things tend to fall in place in all aspects of your world.
Conversely, life takes great pleasure in piling on top of you when you’re down & kicking you straight in the balls when you’re busy trying to get up from the last of several punches in the gut. I look back to days gone by and remembering thinking that I must’ve been a holy man in the past, or a great humanitarian or something. In the past nine months, however, I’ve endured more than what I’d say is fair for on person to have to deal with. To keep things in perspective, I’m not talking about family death or illness, but I’ve certainly suffered more than my share of pain and indignity.
As I try to piece things back together & regain some form of my former level of happiness, I continually have new hurdles placed before me. Some of them are mere bumps, but others bring me to a full stop, again. All the while, I continue trying to get past the pain…
… or at least learn to accept that it’ll never go away.
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Sensei64
No matter how bad things are, they can always, always be worse. But so long as you don’t wish them to be, you’re alright.
I think I read that on a bumper sticker or greeting card once. Or maybe it was on a restroom wall…
jenna
row row row your boat, gently down the stream
I think there is some truth to the saying that all we need to know is what we learned in kindergarten. Life reminds me of the row your boat song. Sometimes in life, we hit rocks, debris, upstreams, downstreams, etc. But we learn how to navigate around them and get past it. When we see another bump ahead we can navigate around it better than before.
Then sometimes we hit a boulder that we can’t move. We are forced to go down a new part of the river we never knew existed. I don’t think you’ll ever be in the same place of happiness you were before. But hey, you might be going down another part of life that is just as beautiful.
Keep paddling Love!
merrily, merrily, merrily
Tony
I have a less lyrical outlook. Life is just a long period of time when a bunch of crap happens to you. Somethings are great, some things are not so great. Either way, we tend to make the best of things and it seems that our lives tend to get better as time goes on.
I was once attending college for a Broadcast Telecommunications degree. I was working at a TV station at the time and I got fired. That caused me to examine the field and I decided that I could not see a way to make any real money at it. So, I changed to Computer Science and I never looked back.
I used to work at a super computer company. They closed down. It sucked, but it prompted me to return to college to finish my degree.
The first company that I worked for out of college closed down and I was out of a job. I worked a while as a contractor and hated it. But now, I have a permanent position, I make almost twice what I was making, and my company is paying for my Master’s degree.
As long as you don’t bog down in self pity, things will come around.
I am writing this kind of late, and the last I heard things had already worked out. So, this is just a change to spout philosophy.
Dork
Thanks for all of the input and well wishes. Most things have worked out fine with only a few minor irritations remaining. I’ve been through more taxing times in my life, but this I’d unlike anything I’ve ever had to endure, and it really sucks.