Hard
You hear problems all the time from everybody; some may seem bigger than others and completely incapable of handling. Family getting sick, losing money, not having a job, missing home, not being able to afford school, loneliness and heartache… and the grand majority of times most of us are thinking to ourselves, “I wish there was something that had told me that it was going to be this difficult.”
Ironically, even though we say and wish this, we do realize that this is just wishful thinking; I mean, we understand that there is nothing that can prepare us for what happens regardless of the hardships. Advice is advice, it provides an outcome from a similar experience; and as much as it may seem they know what they’re talking about, similarity means close to but not the same. Just because you flipped a coin and it landed heads, doesn’t mean that when I flip a coin it will do the same; for me it may land tails.
I’m not saying my life is any better than the average Joe; nor am I saying that it’s worse. We all have problems; some we share but the effect on our individual lives is different from each person.
Perseverance and hope; that’s enough to get through anything.
Things may not turn out exactly how you want it to be; and to be truthfully honest, they never really do. I think what we all need to do is just be happy with what we have rather than what we expect.
I can put in so much time, effort, passion, and money into getting the ingredients and using the recipe to create the absolute best cake you’ve ever seen; but then after it comes out of the oven it looks nothing like the picture and hardly tastes perfect.
… but you know what? Who needs fine dining when we have ice cream in the freezer? I’m fine with ice cream from the freezer; aren’t you? Yeah, I’m perfectly happy with that.
