Kaka

Here's the deal. Good and bad sh@t happens. Period. Why do we always try to make meaning out of it?

"Oh, it's God's way of saying you're not ready."

"It's a blessing in disguise."

"Why does this sh@t always happen to me?"

"Poor bastard. He can't get a break."

Whether it's in the 1st or 3rd person, meaning is meaning. It's what we as humans choose to attribute to a set of circumstances at any given time. It's our way of simply surviving and using our bag of tricks called 'experience' to deal with anything that comes our way. Some of us even reach into a bag called 'being proactive' to avoid bad stuff as much as possible. How about those of us who are resigned. "Nothing can bother me 'cause I don't give a f@ck." I like that one. Works like a charm, right?

Here's the deal. Sometimes you gotta call a turd a turd. Covering it with sugar, sprinkling flowers on top of it, ignoring it or doing anything else does not change the fact that it's still a piece of crap.

I just got reminded of another saying. "One person's crap is another person's love." Great. But that's not what I'm talking about here.

If there is a circumstance in life that you don't like, that's exactly what it is to YOU - regardless if someone else agrees with you or not - regardless of any meaning you attribute to it in order to make it easier to deal with. Whether the toilet backed up, one of your kids has gotten in trouble with the law, a pregnancy didn't work out the way you wanted it to or anything else, good or bad - get that whatever it means to you is your creation alone - whether you realize it or not.

In other words, sh@t happens. Period. Whether you reach into your old bag of tricks to deal with it or make up some meaning like, for example, it was intended that way is ALL UP TO YOU. I say acknowledge any circumstance - good or bad - for what it is and CHOOSE a way to deal with it in a way that gives you POWER and FREEDOM right NOW.