TOTD: Growing Pains

This is something I wrote in personal diary as part of "Life as I know it" but I decided this is worth sharing.

Life is gonna break your heart. If you live long enough, you're gonna get hurt. That is the reality of life. We are so scared to get our feelings hurt. Scared to fail, scared to try, we're so scared. But no matter your lot in life, you're gonna get hurt. You're gonna get rejected, things are gonna fall as you build them, things are gonna happen that are unexplainable, unfair, your dream will become a nightmare, you will lose what you worked hard for, your credentials will be perfect and you will be bypassed, you will follow the rules and be passed for someone who shunned authority, you will do your best and come up short, you will lose friends, people will die. It doesn't matter who you are, what you do for a living, how much money you make, how nice you are to people, if you say please or thank you. It doesn't matter because life will break you and leave you to pick up the pieces. Life will step on you multiple times without excusing itself.

This isn't intended to sound bitter or angry at the world, it's intended to stop needless fear and inertia. You're not expected to be perfect. You're not expected to succeed at everything on first try. You're gonna fail at something. That's life. It doesn't mean you crawl into the corner and hide for the next 30-40 years because you got your feelings hurt. And just because life broke your heart, it doesn't mean you were "bad."When I have kids, I will tell them this. I'm tired of the punk kids we're having, who are passed through the system and have no real knowledge of what it is to struggle and be hurt.