Take the Reigns

You know, I'm just going to say what everyone is too scared to say:

LIFE SUCKS!

That's right; I said it! And if I could make the font any larger, I would, but this is as large as it goes. So let's all just get over it, shall we?

All I am saying is that most good things come and go. Things won't always turn out in a manner we think is ideal. There will be times when everything will seem to fall apart. It is inevitable. And it does not matter at all. Not at all.

What matters is how we respond. What matters is how we use what resources we have left to pick up our lives and keep moving forward.

Go ahead. Feel sorry for yourself! Go all out! Cry about it- whatever you need to do. Then take a look around you and figure out how to make it better, despite the adverse circumstances. If you don't, you will most certainly miss out on everything good.

Since we can't actually have everything the way we want them to be, why don't we use the undesireable circumstances to make our lives better instead? Stick it to the man! If life gives you lemons- make lemonade! If life turns you don't, use the rejection as an opportunity to do something even better. Think about it. Take a strike back at life. If we really want to be in control of our lives, we can't let the disappointments life dishes out at us get us down. That's what they want. Don't let them have it. Once life deals your hand, manipulate it. Take control for yourself.

I DARE YOU.

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while we're on the subject, could we change the subject now?
i was knocking on your ear's door, but you were always out
looking towards the future, we were begging for the past
well we know we had the good things but those never seemed to last
oh please just last
everyone's unhappy, everyone's ashamed
well we all just got caught looking at somebody else's page
well nothing ever went quite exactly as we planned
our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam

oh and we carried it all so well
as if we got a new position
oh and i'll laugh all the way to hell
saying "yes this is a fine promotion"
oh and i'll laugh all the way to hell

of course everyone goes crazy over such and such and such
we made ourselves a pillar, we just used it as a crutch
we were certainly uncertain at least i'm pretty sure i am
well we didn't need the water, but we just built that good goddamn

oh and i know this of myself
i assume as much for other people
oh and i know this of myself
we've listened to more of life's end gong than the sound of life's sweet bells
was it ever worth it was there all that much to gain
well we knew we'd missed the boat and we'd already missed the plane
we didn't read the invite we just danced at our own wake
all our favorites were playing so we could shake shake shake shake shake
tiny curtains opened and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
a tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all them folks
and drifting around on bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them
when we finally got it figured out that we'd truly missed the boat

oh and we carried it off so well
as if we got a new position
oh and we own all the tools ourselves
without the skills to make a show with
oh what useless tools ourselves

-"Missed the Boat" by Modest Mouse