Life has been a veritable storm for so long I'm having trouble remembering what the calm feels like. Finally, finally, after months of sheer chaos, today I'm having a quiet "day." I have to put day in quotes because I wouldn't really call a meager seven hours to myself a day, but as it is the most I've had in such a long time, it will have to suffice.
Whenever life seems chaotic, and especially when that chaos continues for so long, it's easy to get caught up it, but never forget that there is in fact always a bend in the road. It may be a long time coming, but it will eventually be there.
I remember taking a trip into Kansas with my family when I was little. My dad is a truck driver so we'd crossed the country together in his big rig, and we had seen every landscape this country has to offer, or so I thought. Then I went to Kansas. I had never before been in a place that was so flat I could see the road stretching out before me all the way to horizon and nothing else to see but brown flat fields. No trees, no buildings, no bends.
Suddenly that trip seemed so much longer, it was agonizing. I mean no direct disrespect to Kansas or the people who live there, but it was so flat I thought we would drive off the edge of the earth! But, suddenly there it was, a hill. It was a small hill, barely more than a bump. Then there was another and another, and each one a little bigger, and before long the road began to curve again, the landscape changed and that part of the trip was over.
The point of that homespun story is just this, life never stops moving and no matter what you're going through right now, it won't last. The hard times won't last but neither will the easy times. So, appreciate at the good, savor it, and get through the bad, just survive if you have to because things will change eventually if you just keep going. Tomorrow might be crazy again and the day after that, but today it's calm, it's quiet and I intend to enjoy every second of it, rest as much as possible.
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