You know what is hard?

Life.

Life is hard and brutal and pain filled. No one gets a pass. We all have to suffer grief. We all have to feel physical pain. We’re all going to die.

Our time here is brief. Some of us have more than our share of suffering and sometimes it feels like we’re being treated unfairly by the universe. The truth is though, life is what it is. We are born under certain circumstances with certain abilities and then we make choices. Random things that are completely out of our control affect us. Sometimes good. Sometimes tragic. The result? Our precise lives. Fair doesn’t come in to play.

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You know the dream. The one where you are at school and realize that you forgot your clothes. Or in my case, the dream always happens at a filthy Dairy Queen and the bathrooms are so disgusting that they are unusable. I’m sure this says something about me, but as that would include ice cream and fecal matter, I’m not sure I want to know exactly what it says about me.

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Seriously.

Even without stressful situations, my anxiety has been kicking my ass. Anxiety currently holds the heavy weight champion belt in the ‘fight against Michelle ever having any peace of mind’ contest.

That just reminded me of one of my husbands. Not the current one. One year, when I was married to ‘not Randy’ we made Christmas lists for each other. He had this on his list ‘piece of mind’. Which really, given what he asked for, would have been a useful gift. 

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