I wish there was some kind of warning about life.
A caution.
A disclaimer.
That as you grow up, life deals you certain cards and there’s no option of sliding them back into the deck.Those are your cards now.
How will you play them?
Moments shape our lives.
Happy moments.
Sad moments.
Scary moments.
Thrilling moments.
No matter the category, they change the trajectory of our life, how we view ourselves, view others, view situations, and view different places.
We learn from family, friends, and strangers that bad things will happen along the way, great things will happen along the way.
But nobody is holding a sign at the very moments that the good, bad, and ugly are staring you in the face.
I’ve had a lot of moments in my life that have shaped me into the person I am. To be in the place that I am and surrounded by the people I am.
While I am grateful for where I am in this very moment in life, there were shaping events that I would’ve rather not been a person at all. To have been obsolete.
I looked happy in the face and said to myself “thank you for being here with me”.
I looked bad in the face and said to myself “what is this trying to teach me”.
I looked ugly in the face and said to myself “this can’t be happening to me”.
No warning.
No caution.
No disclaimer.
If I’ve learned one thing, it is to not look at the cards I’ve been dealt and plead to the dealer that I don’t know how to play the hand.
Instead, I learn the game of poker and wait for the next royal flush.