I got what 'ch need!

What happens when the things you thought were so horrible, that they were impossible; happen?

What do you do when every aspect of your life becomes affected by a series of shattering changes?

You listen. You absorb them… And hopefully you grow.

What I have learned as of late:

- It can be devastating when others choose to end what you thought was a good thing.

- It can be equally hard to be the one to end something that your heart just isn't in anymore.

- Just because someone gets sick, doesn't mean they can't work to challenge their body to excruciating limits and create a different and better physical self.

- Nothing is ever what it seems when you deal with humans.

- Accidents can happen. You have to trust that a person didn't know what they did to you, no matter how life changing the consequences.

- You can be self sustainable, but then you get to have very long heart to hearts with everyone, and I mean everyone, telling you how you have "walls".

- A good bar is hard to find, especially when: they put up with you drinking one beer and five waters one night… and humor you when you try your darndest to help them empty all their tequila bottles during a day from hell the next.

- When you find yourself on your hands and knees in your new suit cleaning up crap from someone else's dog, instead of waiting for the owner to come home and take care of it…and you do it without trying to calculate your Karma brownie points. You realize you might be a worthwhile person after all.

- Chatting with a five year old each day keeps me enlightened and very amused...and strangely emboldened and recharged.

- Learning how to take a deep breath can actually drive a person up the damn wall. Especially when everyone else seems to do it naturally.

- Nothing is so sacred that you can't make jokes about it…even divorce (ask me about paint ball guns), crying, etc.

El amor es tortura… No hay nada en mi vida que arrepiento, porque sin todo ello no seria la persona quien soy.

(Love is torture… There is nothing I regret in my life, because I wouldn't be the person that I am today without all of it.)

– A handy little thing a character in a story I wrote said once. Maybe I was projecting just a bit when I wrote it.