Dance through your life

Pain. You just have to ride it out. Let it go away on its own. Let the wound that caused it heal. There are no real solutions. No easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Even if it takes longer than anticipated, longer than you think you can handle. 

Most of the time, pain can be managed. But sometimes, the pain gets you when you least expect it. Hits way below the belt and doesn’t let up. Pain is a bitch.

Pain. You just have to fight through. 

Because the truth is, you can’t outrun it. And life always makes more.

Pain hurts. That's the nature of it and it's bad. There's always a lot of bad to focus on. there's hope too. And that matters. Hope matters. 

According to Glennon Menton Doyle. life is 'brutiful' (a hefty dose of both brutal and beautiful simultaneously) 

You can choose what you want to believe in--the bad or the hope or some combination.

You choose.

Now.

Every moment.

Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass

it's about learning to dance in the rain.

-Vivian Greene

What is you decided to embrace Pain and Uncertainty and Confusion and all that? What if you decided that there is something to be gained from your current situation? What if you understood the awesome responsibility you have of choosing how you view your life? You get to choose if you wait and get angry about the cold, wet droplets pounding your skin or if you dance to the sound of the water sparkling around you.

What if you could appreciate where you are right now? who you are right now? Have you ever wondered what you would be like if the only person you compared yourself to was you? 

Don't get me wrong. I'm super cynical and sarcastic and find it disgustingly difficult to live in a state of home and positivity. Buttttttttt I LOOVVVEEEEE gratitude. Before I visited my best friend for just a few short days back in February, someone asked if I get the post-visit blues. My response? Surprisingly no, I wrap myself in post-visit gratitude. 

Now is the time to dance, because the longer you just wait, the easier it is to keep waiting...and waiting. The perfect time to dance will never come. Dance while things are imperfect and things just may get better pretty darn fast.

And here's a trick, don't dance alone. You can if there's no one around, but we belong to each other. We all live in this brutiful world. We are all trying to make it through.