Another Day - Today's Reflection

Writing has always been a release for me, whether a problem is big, small, or like today, there is no immediate issue. Life is not easy, but if it was, what the hell would we learn from it? We'd be ungrateful and unappreciative to the things we have because we'd all have what we want, and honestly, that would suck!

The thing about the struggle is it does build character. Not everyone benefits from the character they build. Some people lean towards the "whoa is me" philosophy in life. I find that to be pathetic and agravating. Nothing bothers me more than people that use suffering to do nothing, be nothing and not caring about anything!

I could play that hand. A single mother, with only her mother as family who is incarcerated because she is an addict, and always has been. A physically abused child, who grew with no father. Who moved out on her own when she was 14. Her first pregnancy as a teen, produced a son, who then died... and she lashed out and was in and out of jail, gangs and so forth. So who would expect her to do anything with her life, she came from shit, right?

BULLSHIT!

As all that is true and all that is me, I embrace all of it! That is why I am strong, and that is why I take no shit. I wear all those negative things on my sleeve, proudly. I may have been wounded in the past, but wounds heal if you let them. I dropped out of high school, and now I am a year from my first college degree, with two more following that. I teach my own children everything that I never learned. I make sure that they never feel the way I did. I used my past as a learning experience, because that is what I think life is all about.

What are we here for other to learn. To make mistakes, and then do better next time?!?!

Giving up is easy, and nothing in life should be easy, therefore giving up is just not an option.

Be grateful for all that you consider owed to you, like the air that you breathe, the flower you admire, the sun beating on your face as winter turns to spring, the smile another human gives you while passing by...

Appreciate the things that no one ever considers to be special, because one day you might wish you could still see that flower or that smile, or hear children playing... and when you take things for granted they can be striped from you faster than you have ever know!