Life's Like That!

Eagles at home near Daniel Point

I believe life is what it is.

Good things don’t just happen to good people, good things happen to bad people too.. and bad things happen to good people and bad people and things happen to bad people and good people and sometimes things don’t even happen.. to good or bad people..

And who are these ‘good’ people anyway.. and these ‘bad’ people?  Who decides these things?! 

We are all just people: we are who we are ..and sometimes, well,  ‘shit’ happens – or doesn’t happen.. depending if it does or not.

The idea that ‘Things always happen for a reason’ may be reassuring in some sadistic/arrogant/hopeful sort of way, but I think it’s crap.  I think things happen because they happen.

I think I told my kids when they were quite young.. ‘life’s not fair.. deal with it.’ 

Some people have it easier than others.. too bad.  There are probably a lot more people that have it harder than most of us here in Canada.

All we have to deal with is our own, personal realities.

And how we deal with that, well, that is what takes us where we end up going.

When life is unfair, I think it is important to yell and scream, and cry and lay in bed and eat ice-cream.   We need to be sad or how would be know when we were happy. 

Ok.. that’s crap too: not the laying in bed stuff: the knowing when we are happy.  Happy is always good.

But we also need to recognize when life has ‘shat’ on us, pick ourselves up (no hurry) and change roads.. not necessarily directions.  We need to take control for a while, shift gears (to continue with the car metaphor), use the brakes.. then accelerate. 

Modify our goals.. take a new look at things, maybe from a different direction.  

Nobody said it would be easy.. it is what it is.  Everyone’s journey is different – it is what keeps things interesting.