#dug from the drafts

Life isn’t stationary. It’s constantly shifting, twisting, getting better and then worse and then better again, cruel and kind. That’s something none of us can change. The only bit of control we have is of ourselves, how we accept things, how we hold onto them, how we let them go. Sometimes our decisions determine an outcome and sometimes it seems to be out of our hands (most times it is, sometimes it isn’t). So, when we say ‘do your best’ and ‘be happy’ and ‘keep trying’, we never mean ‘make everything okay’. We mean, ‘take what little control you have and make peace with it, because it might not change anything, and because it might make a big difference.’