Life Is Hard, AND…

Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes it’s not fair. Sometimes you have bad days…or bad weeks…or even bad months. Sometimes it feels like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes you feel like you can’t breathe. And sometimes you don’t even know why you feel that way.

Sometimes you wake up and it takes every bit of energy, every bit of motivation, every bit of courage inside of you to sit up, swing your legs over the side of the bed, and stand up. Sometimes all you can think is, “Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.”

Sometimes you feel like you’re drowning. You are slipping deeper and deeper under the surface, and you’re out of air. You’re out of fight.

You keep waiting for the day things go back to normal. But you keep waiting…and waiting…and waiting.

Like I said, sometimes life is hard.

But you have to wake up anyway. You have to get out of bed anyway. Get dressed anyway. Go to work anyway. Talk to people anyway. Eat dinner anyway. Live your life anyway.

Because life doesn’t stop when you have a bad day. It doesn’t stop when you have a bad year. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and you will see it if you just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Keep getting out of bed every morning, even when you don’t feel like it. Keep going to work, talking to people, and living life anyway.

And then one day, you will look up and see a little flicker of light in the distance. It will be small and far away. But as you put one foot in front of the other, you will se that light grow bigger and brighter. Soon you will be walking out of the tunnel and into the light.

Just keep going.

It’s hard
to be alive
sometimes.
And it is
still worth
breathing;
still worth
waking up
tomorrow.

Still, Mary Howard