… You never know what you’re gonna get”
– Forrest Gump
Life.
It can be unpredictable at times and it certainly never turns out exactly the way you expected it to. Its full of extremes and a variety of emotions, from joy to sadness, cruelty to kindness, heartache to passionate love and everything in between.
At school we are taught that if you do good, good things will happen in return and you will be rewarded with a gold star! Unfortunately in the real world there are no gold stars and no guarantees that your “good doings” will keep you safe from bad things, unpleasant things, sad things or anything difficult.
The truth is you cant go through life without a few bumps along the way BUT you do have a choice in the way you react to it. Your reaction to a situation can completely change your trajectory in life. This is something that people (including me) take years to learn and most of the time when bad things happen we have a tendency to become the victim of our situation. We avoid taking the responsibility of our own actions and therefore we avoid the responsibility of our own life. Unless your prepared to face the truth and take on the responsibility of your actions you will always be stuck in an ignorant loop of self pity. The age old saga of “why is this happening to me”, “what did i do to deserve this”, “why do bad things happen to good people”. There is no reason for the way things happen, they just do!
The only thing that is certain is your actions. You can choose to focus on the bad stuff and keep your self up at night trying to figure out the “whys” or you can choose to focus on the good things and keep choosing actions moving forward that bring you closer to your goals.
Life IS like a box of chocolates and you never know WHAT your gonna get….but whatever you get you can CHOOSE to laugh, instead of cry…and keep moving forward.
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