Why do bad things keep happening to me?
Do you ever get one of those aha moments—when you look back at your situation and suddenly realize, I missed that… how did I miss that?
You finally see the whole picture, and everything comes together and makes total sense.
I realize now something that is so profound:
I can’t truly understand success and happiness unless I can truly understand failure and disappointment.
After all the things that have happened to me — quadruple bypass, rhabdomyolysis, necrotizing myopathy, a car wreck with back fractures, and then stents earlier this year…
I’m finally beginning to understand.
It’s my aha moment.
It took me all these years, and all those things had to happen for me — for me to truly understand.
I couldn’t be here, right now, unless I was there.
I had to be unhappy and miserable, and fail over and over, so many times, just so I could appreciate what I have now.
Okay then!
Now when I look back, I realize it really hasn’t been that bad. It’s actually been pretty freaking wonderful.
I just wasn’t paying attention.
I used to think I had to do all these things, go all these places, and have all this stuff to be happy.
Nope. I can be happy doing na—thang.
I can be happy just sitting here in this recliner enjoying my coffee.
Yet that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t chase greatness, or do something nice, or go somewhere cool.
It just means I can enjoy the ride along the way.
The small things.
I can be happy no matter my circumstances.
It’s a crazy ride—this life.
It’s a roller coaster of emotions. Its highs, its lows, its learning, its forgetting, and its forgiving.
But most importantly, it’s just a ride.
Enjoy the ride. 🎈
