A book (📕 / 📀 / 🎧) by Cheryl Strayed
Accept the reality of life and make the most of it
Things often get thrown at people, without regard for who they are, or what they’ve done. Sometimes, things happen in your life and you wonder why it should have — you feel cheated as you believe you don’t deserve to have such terrible things happen. But guess what? Such is life.
⚡️Life isn’t always fair — that is the foremost reality you should hold on to.
Sometimes, things that are not our responsibility become our problem. Other times, bad things happen to good people who totally do not deserve it. Bad things happen all the time, for no definite reason. The best one can do is live life to its fullest potential, brace oneself and move on from the hurt when life’s inevitable storm hits — in whatever form it takes.
“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.”
Cheryl Strayed
No human can control the events that will take place in his or her life. However, it would help to keep the following in mind:
- Life isn’t black and white. Sometimes, it comes in confusing colors.
- People don’t always get to do what they want or should. They do what they can.
- The past is fixed. When something happens, there is nothing you can do to change it. In other words, it is best not to cry over spilled milk as the tears can’t make the milk get back in the jar.
- The future is uncertain. People change, things change, relationships change, situations change.
- Every present predicament is temporary. Things will definitely get better if you play your part.