Life’s like that.

Life is as good as you give and as much as you take. Both the good stuff and the bad.

You won’t fall behind looking forward. But you will definitely not get ahead complaining.

Sometimes things don’t happen as we like or plan, sometimes life surprises us with things we never expect. Sometimes you want to be an activist, sometimes you just want to watch the world go by. Sometimes it’s overwhelming, sometimes exhilarating.

We can age gracefully, or turn into jaded old farts. We can’t change the inevitable, we can control the process.

There’s a difference between forced and ra-ra enthusiasm, and the gentle smile that you get from someone you know is truly contented but who does yet not take things for granted. There’s something compelling and attractive about happy people. They shine.

We are a product of our response to what life throws at us. It’s not always simple, but to grow and bloom or to wither and die, that’s a choice we have to make all the time.

-Random thoughts on an early sunday morning-