I realised something yesterday, that in life we will encounter a great many situations and people that might probably be less than ideal, but it is neither the situations nor the people, that shape us, rather our reaction to these situations and people that makes us who we are.
This is something I had known for quite a while, but when I read this yesterday, it just struck a chord within me. In that moment I realised that yes, I have met my fair share of fucked up people and I have been in fucked up situations, but it isn not those situations or those people that defined me or made me into who I am, it was how I handled those situations and those people.
Just because I know this, it does not mean that I do not have my bad days, when it seems like no matter what I do, I just don’t seem to be able to achieve what I want, or when everything just feels so empty, when the only thing I sometimes feel is loneliness, when the best thing you could do, is crawl up into a ball in your bed and not move from there until all your tears have dried up.
The other thing that I have learned is that these moments pass. It may take a while, but it will pass, and before you know it, it will be something that is a part of your past. Something that you know was real, hell, it was probably the most honest thing that you ever felt, but for some reason after all this time, it just feels so unreal, almost as if it had never really happened to you, and you had just been a bystander looking in from the outside.
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