{"id":42492,"date":"2011-06-09T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/42492\/surviving\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:13:09","slug":"surviving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/42492\/surviving\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Note: \u00a0I wasn’t sure if I was going to post this here or not but my life feels like a roller coaster right now – one minute up, one minute down. My eyes are sore and swollen from crying practically everyday and right now I just feel lost and alone. I just feel so lost about pretty much everyone and \u00a0EVERYTHING right now. \ud83d\ude25 \u00a0 I wrote this the other day and I felt better after I did but now, I think I needed to post this here just to sort of remind myself about all of this, too, and try to convince myself of all of what I wrote. I hope this might help anyone else whose life feels like it really sucks at the moment, too.} <\/p>\n

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\u201cInto each life some rain must fall.\u201d \u2013 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody told me there would be days like these\u2026.strange days indeed.\u201d \u2013 John Lennon<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone goes through them. Hard times. Dark days. Difficult times when you don\u2019t feel like you have a friend in the world and that there is no possible way things will ever get better. It just seems to me that these days are all around me right now, in one way or another. Health issues, financial issues, personal issues, unemployment, depression\u2026.you name something crappy and I know someone close to me, or is me, who is dealing with it. I definitely feel like the bluebird of happiness is leaving it\u2019s droppings all over everyone\u2019s personal rainbows right now. <\/font><\/p>\n

Now I know this isn\u2019t the first time that we have faced dark times. Right now I want everyone who is reading this to think back to one, two, heck even three of the darkest moments in your life that you have experienced. Alright, you got \u2018em? Good. Now let me ask you this. When you were smack dab right in the middle of these hard times, did you ever think there would be a time when you would actually be able to look back upon them or did you truly believe that you would be swallowed up by them completely and never find your way out again? Well if you\u2019re sitting there reading this right now, it proves that somehow you survived them afterall. Congratulations.<\/font><\/p>\n

As bad as things are and as much as it would be so easy to just curl up on the couch in the fetal position and continually, mindlessly, just click the remote and channel surf as you try with all your might to block out the world entirely, you just can\u2019t. Some of us have responsibilities and even if you don\u2019t, once you allow yourself to cease functioning it either makes it that much harder of a crawl back up the hill towards life again once you do somehow see just a tiny break of sunshine through the clouds, or it\u2019s simply over. Stick a fork in yourself, cause you\u2019re done. But life is a funny thing. Change and tough times are inevitable. They hit each and every one of us most times when we least expect it and when it couldn\u2019t be any worse of a time for them to hit (as if there ever would be a good time to hit). But from my experience life has a funny way of having everything somehow work out for the best in the end. It doesn\u2019t always seem that way at the time and very often at the time it honestly ISN\u2019T, but time often has a way of weaving a tapestry to at least make it seem like it\u2019s okay. Is time nature\u2019s novicane? Perhaps, but even if things do still suck, isn\u2019t it better when at least we can\u2019t feel the pain from it anymore? In my opinion some things, like the loss of a loved one, can never be made right. These things only hurt a bit less once the novicane kicks in. Other things, though, somehow find their own way of adjusting and slowly becoming at first better but over time, actually alright.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the self elected cheerleader to all of the people in my life. When someone is down or having a bad time, they always turn to me for a comforting word or to cheer them up. Right now, though, I can\u2019t seem to find my way through my own personal fog to see the sunlight at the end of it all. I just have to know and depend on the fact that it\u2019s there just because it always has been before. Why wouldn\u2019t it be there now? I catch a glimpse of light every now and then but then I have a day when the \u201cperky little elf\u201d that dwells deep inside of my heart and soul is nowhere to be found\u2026.or trying her best to free herself from the ropes and gag that I have imposed on her. Today was one of those days for me simply because\u2026..it just was.<\/font><\/p>\n

So to everyone else out there who has some kind of crappy and unpleasant thing hanging over their head or imposing itself on your life, I guess I want to say this. Yes, somehow we will all survive and get through this test, trial or tribulation that we are going through right now if for no other reason, than that we always just seem to. It usually just happens whether we make the conscious effort to help it along or not. Isn\u2019t it great how life still manages to take care of us somehow even when we can\u2019t be bothered? So there you have it. In spite of the fact that I wanted to give my perky little elf that lives inside of my heart and soul a good swift kick, somehow she managed to escape and gave us all a bit of a pep talk. Darn it! Next time I\u2019ll have to use some stronger rope to tie her up better.<\/font><\/p>\n

We will survive.
\nWe will move past this.
\nSomehow we always do.
\nSo why not this time?<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Note: \u00a0I wasn’t sure if I was going to post this here or not but my life feels like a roller coaster right now – one minute up, one minute down. My eyes are sore and swollen from crying practically everyday and right now I just feel lost and alone. I just feel so lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[952,940,34,3602],"class_list":["post-42492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-depression","tag-lost","tag-sadness","tag-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}