Enjoy the Ride

You can't run from the world. You can't run and you can't hide, it will always find you. The days of being able to hide under your covers from all the bad things out there in the world are long gone. There are always going to be bad things out there and a lot of the time it may seem like they are aimed directly at you and there is no place to run to avoid them. But maybe the key is to not run. Maybe being hit with it in the back as you're running away is only going to make it worse, prevent you from seeing it as clearly as possible before it hits so you can be prepared for it. I guess it comes down to the question of how you want to deal with pain, with suffering, with disappointments, with let downs, with all the big bad things the world can (and does) throw at you - do you want to deny that it's going to happen until the moment that it slams into your back and sends you flying to the ground or do you want to face the world, eyes wide open and taking it all in, and see the big bad things for what they are while still enjoying the view from the mountain top. You can't hide your head in the sand. The world doesn't work that way. The best we can do is lie on the sand and soak up the sun while it's out and not worry about the storm that may hit and wash us away with the tide. Because those things are always going to be there - the "what if"s, the hypothetical disasters that could be waiting just around the bend - but we have no control over when they'll hit so we might as well enjoy the ride.

Yours,
Penguini