October 26, 2009
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You know that saying “If I didn’t laugh I’d cry?” Here’s one for you:
Recently I have worked my fingers to the bone and body to exhaustion on a couple of events that were a wild success in every way, but still made no money. Yesterday I was stuck outside in a downpour with shelter far away as it rained cats, dogs and ferrets, this after last week being delivered a slip from the sheriffs office informing me that a guy who I was potentially going to rent a room from was taking me to court (what?!) and a woman had smashed into my car, ripping the front end off on Friday- I just laughed.
Yep.
Laughed.
Because why? That moment when you’ve cried enough after life has told you to screw off a hundred times and you realize it does no good and it makes you feel worse anyway- standing drenched in a downpour, wondering how you’re going to pay your rent, what you’re going to say in a court debacle or how you’re going to get your car un-smashed; you’re still somehow a happy, proud person and believer in everything- and laughing feels just perfect.
Absolutely perfect.
Whatcha got next world? Throw it here. I’ll spit you back some sunshine:)
Anonymous
October 28, 2009 at 1:09 amSomeone (can’t recall whom to credit – I think a Japanese-American author) said “the journey is the prize”.
Would you want be a salmon which swims hundreds of miles upstream, leaping uphill waterfalls, struggling to the headwaters of it’s own hatching, simply to spawn and then die so the cycle continues anew? Or would you prefer to be caught at sea, fat and lazy, because you struck a sportfisherman’s shiny lure, or worse, were hauled in by a giant net, passively and none the wiser?
In keeping the fish analogy, I think life without adversity or struggle would “taste” a little bland.
You’ll make it.