It seems a constant rule that when it rains it pours. It seems in my life when things get bad they get really bad. And then I'm left feeling like I'm drowning and struggling to breathe the immediate panic sets in of knowing you can't touch the bottom any more, and you don't know how to swim. Suddenly life becomes less about the future and just about how to make it through the next few moments without drowning.
When you're a kid everyone tells you to enjoy it because it will be over before you know it. What they don't tell you is that once you hit adulthood you'll realize that no one really knows what they're doing and everyone is just making it up as they go along.
If you're lucky this might be the greatest struggle you have to face. If you're less lucky you will have more hardships thrown at you than you'll ever have imagined. There will be days when it consumes you. Days when you can't see an end to the struggle.
Slowly though these moments when you feel like you're drowning will pass. You'll feel your head break the surface and begin to gulp for fresh air.
It's easy to get swept up in the drowning moments and let them paralyze you with fear. Fear of the what ifs and of straight up failure. It's hard to face reality and not hide from what scares you. When you're a kid, hiding is what keeps you safe. But at some point you can't hide anymore and ostriching is no longer an option.
Cliches are cliched for a reason. Because they ring true.
- Hard work builds character
- Every storm runs out of rain/it can't rain all the time/if you want to see the rainbow you have to sit through a little rain
- This too shall pass
- What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
All these are little nuggets I drop on a regular basis because I believe all of them. What's more is I have to believe them. Because sometimes a stupid little cliche is all that keeps my head above the water.
