Day 21: All Times are Hard

There are times when it is deeply appealing to throw up my hands, announce that I am entirely overwhelmed and therefore will do nothing.

There is only one problem:
Yesterday I was overwhelmed.
Today I feel overwhelmed.

So.... going to sleep tonight will magically make it better?

All times are hard.

There are great struggles, petty persistent problems and awkward moments that waddle across the stage of life.

And when one lumbers across my life, leaving a great swath of mild embarrassment, it makes me laugh. After all, one was going to come along sooner or later. It is not because I'm awkward or socially unacceptable or just somehow wrong.

All times are hard.
All times are challenges.
All times stretch us to become something more than what we are.
All times are times to work, to achieve. When at the least, it can always be made a little better or at the very least, one can laugh at the sheer perversity that we exist in the face of.

All times are hard and that's what gives us the opportunity to make them good.