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the_goren_show) wrote2008-06-18 04:20 am
the_goren_show) wrote2008-06-18 04:20 am
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Writer's Block: Some words to live by...
[Error: unknown template qotd] No, not really, because everyone knows there's no such thing, just like there's no such thing as true love. Everything in life that's worth having is worth working for, but that's another rant. The best words there are to explain my attitude towards life is "happily ever after... every now and then."
Life can't be approached as a zero sum game, not if you want to really live it. You need to take the good and the bad and make the best you can of it. God knows that's hard. I know that's hard and I'm not any kind of god, not even to my own life. But, you know what? I'm okay with that most times. I know that for every falling down moment where I'm face to mud again and sitting crumpled and bleeding in the wreckage there will be a soaring moment where everything goes wonderfully and the clouds will slide away from the sun. As the sunlight hits me from those single perfect moments, I will drag myself up and walk - limping at first until the kinks are worked out - but gradually running head on into life. Yes, I know that at any time a brick wall can leap up and leave me in the wreckage once more. I also know I am strong enough to claw my way back out of the hole and keep moving forward.
I don't expect every day to be sunshine and roses and that lets me mostly keep my head up on those inevitable days when the world crashes in on me. I savour the flavour of each insult the world inflicts on me because it allows me to learn more about me. But I also know that those golden perfect days must be savoured when they arrive and I'm always willing to take them with the same sense of childlike wonder with which I regard dust motes dancing in a sunbeam. Because one day, the brick wall will be stronger than I am and I want to sink into oblivion knowing that I did as much as I could and lived as joyously as I was able. So here's to happily ever after, every now and then.
Life can't be approached as a zero sum game, not if you want to really live it. You need to take the good and the bad and make the best you can of it. God knows that's hard. I know that's hard and I'm not any kind of god, not even to my own life. But, you know what? I'm okay with that most times. I know that for every falling down moment where I'm face to mud again and sitting crumpled and bleeding in the wreckage there will be a soaring moment where everything goes wonderfully and the clouds will slide away from the sun. As the sunlight hits me from those single perfect moments, I will drag myself up and walk - limping at first until the kinks are worked out - but gradually running head on into life. Yes, I know that at any time a brick wall can leap up and leave me in the wreckage once more. I also know I am strong enough to claw my way back out of the hole and keep moving forward.
I don't expect every day to be sunshine and roses and that lets me mostly keep my head up on those inevitable days when the world crashes in on me. I savour the flavour of each insult the world inflicts on me because it allows me to learn more about me. But I also know that those golden perfect days must be savoured when they arrive and I'm always willing to take them with the same sense of childlike wonder with which I regard dust motes dancing in a sunbeam. Because one day, the brick wall will be stronger than I am and I want to sink into oblivion knowing that I did as much as I could and lived as joyously as I was able. So here's to happily ever after, every now and then.