Sometimes Life Throws You a Curveball

Sometimes you are going along in your daily world, consumed by things that you think are so important. Then something happens that totally changes your perspective. Things that you took for granted are no longer there. The foregone conclusion is suddenly gone. It's like the A you had in high school geometry--before that test you tanked. After tanking the test, you are shocked to realize that you are hoping for a C, or maybe even a D. You wonder, how in the world did that happen?

There are plenty of people who have it worse. Think about the accident you passed on the way in to work; someone thought their biggest problem was being late to work, but after an accident they are dead. It suddenly makes passersby realize that being late to work wasn't that bad after all. It's all part of that thing called "perspective."

So I'm still here, and I still have a fire burning in my belly. Don't count me out yet.

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