Pickled Herring and Bamboo Washboards

When the sun refuses to shine and the ground feels like it's clawing to root your feet in itself, do not stop walking and searching for the light. As far as pushing forward is concerned, I've been a pretty excellent example of continuing on through harsh times. Now I'm sure everyone has heard at least one of those cheesy lines, "It's always darkest before dawn," or "To see the rainbow, you have to deal with a little rain," and all that noise.. And I'm not here to treat you, my darling reader, like a child who is naive to evil in the world. Sometimes the "darkest before dawn", is pitch black.. completely black so that you can't even see your own hand in front of your face. Sometimes the rain is so heavy that it might crush you beneath it's mini-van sized drops.


A really close friend of mind once told me that I am "the poster child for moving forward". I will say, though this statement has validity, that does not mean that I've never thought about giving up. To be honest with all of you, I'm sitting in a hospital bed as we speak (some chick hit me with her car while she was texting and driving), but that's not stopping me from thinking positive. I've had a REALLY rough couple of days, but I'm not going to stop pushing, and I hope that none of you give up on your own personal goals and wishes.


Sometimes, among all the crazy parts of life, we want to stop and just give up and let outside factors control our lives. We need to keep the power in our hands and not break down and not let our lives get too out of control for us. And when things do get too out of control for us, we should get help so we can stay in control. Life is crazy, and if it wasn't for the fact that things can change at any second, think of how boring life would be. I've always said that you need a black to determine what is white, and you need a dark to contrast the light (rhyme not intended).


You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair -Chinese Proverb