It's never easy being in a situation where you're waiting for life to make the next move. It could mean remaining in the same position you're in now for a while or seeing something new - good or bad - come along unexpectedly. It's safe to say that I'm a control freak. I'm organized to a fault and I like to know what is going to happen when. If I want to hang out with my friends, I plan it weeks in advance just so I can mark it on my calendar. I'm not one of those people that usually just does things on a whim - unless it involves an impulse purchase from Home Goods which I am frequently guilty of.
I feel like currently I have far too many things hanging on the balance of life, but then I have to stop myself and say 'who doesn't?' There are plenty of questions that I simply have to accept as being unanswerable until the answer is literally right in front of me. Sometimes, that's just how life is. It's not easy... It's not always fun... It's definitely not fair. But when I start thinking down that path, my father's words that we always used to hear as kids always come back to me: "I didn't ask if it was fair." It's that unfortunate truth we all have to accept. If life was fair, my father would still be alive, I wouldn't have to work for a living, and the garden would weed itself.
Life is what we make it. We can only work with what we have. If we continually covet what we don't have, we'll never be happy. That's why I love finding satisfaction in the small things... Because spotting a red-winged blackbird in the field down the street, savoring a package of M&M's on a cloudy afternoon, holding the hand of the one you love - those are things that will never cease to amaze when you make a point to really embrace them.
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