"Every once in awhile life comes rushing out at us from the darkness"

Lately it feels like life has just been a whirlwind of chaos. Trying to make sense of all this got me thinking about how drastically life can change. When we are young, life is simple. We believe what those we love tell us and teach us. Those things and people make us who we are as we grow up. Then we grow up, make plans, and have dreams. We have a picture in our mind of what the future is going to be like, but what happens when the impossible happens? Life sometimes come rushing out at us from the darkness and in the blink of an eye, everything you know can be flipped upside down. Suddenly you don't know who to believe, which direction to turn or what you're going to do. This is where I am and I can't help but keep thinking, how did life get this messed up? How did it end up here? How did it get this far? If we aren't careful the evils of this world sneak up and overtake us. Things that we could never forsee, become reality and it seems impossible that this is the path that your life has taken. But it has and now we must decide to either merely cope or find the courage and strength to fight through it. It doesn't seem fair that we are faced with these things, although life never really has been fair. As time goes on, we learn to make the best of the hand we are dealt. And although it may be painful, the decision to forgive and learn from it may be the one that makes us the better person in the end.