The Hard Pills in Life to Swallow

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?" - Sydney J. Harris

The Reality We Must Accept

We all must gradually grow to learn the harder pills in life to swallow. Especially when it feels as though it is your cheat sheet into becoming a better version of yourself. To start, don’t expect anything from anyone. People make promises all day they can’t keep, so why assume people will read your mind and do as you please. We are each too focused on ourselves to worry about what we could be doing for other people. It can be seen as selfish or it can be seen as independence to not rely on anyone but you.

Everyone will leave, it’s unavoidable. We are constantly becoming new people each day of our life. Coming and going in and out of people’s lives. But sometimes when we go out, we don’t come back in. It can be overwhelming to experience change as heavy as the loss of a soul in your world, but the now must be accepted. There is no fate, each action determines the story we want to write. This means there is no backspace in life. We need to continue what is happening in the present. While keeping the past behind us and learning from it what is necessary to provide growth. Whether it is accepting it is what it is, or the individual lesson one needs to be taught.

Life won’t stop moving, it will go on without you. People will do their own thing and won’t wait for you to catch up. We each go at our own speed. There is no order or competition to experiencing life. Because no matter how much excitement it seems as though a person is having, we all have to go through pain to appreciate happiness. The pain doesn’t stop, it just gets easier to handle. Just as I have been able to develop a source of salvation to create my own narrative of what it means to be human, it is a process that has encouraged day to day comparison in self-development. It allows one to reclaim the ability to have the power towards a better perspective on the unknown possibilities.

In order to find comfort in being alone, it’s essential to discover one’s individual forms of expression. This includes no bottled up feelings, but acknowledgement of each emotion running through your body and how you choose to react to it. Allowing yourself to take the time to understand some of the bigger feelings of the world can take a moment we aren’t always ready to be patient for. It is okay to take a step out of reality, because we have no control on time and it doesn’t stop moving, but we can control where we choose to spend our time. We must take a breath, recognize where our emotions are placed on our body in correlation to what we feel in our brain, and decide healthy options over how to move on from this climax to the next page in the story.