What to do during tough times?
Bad things happen to good people. Hell, bad things happen to everyone! Nobody can escape it. I definitely haven 't. Call it karma, call it fate, call it God 's will; whatever you call it, you ain 't escaping it.
What 's the matter? You can 't handle a bit of trouble? hah. There are hard things in life we all must go through, be it death of a loved ones that pushes us to learn, a failed relationship that forces us to be independent, a loss of what once seemed to be forever there. Things disappear and people die, nothing is permanent. Money comes and goes.
I 've accepted that fact long ago, but I 've also learned something so valuable along the way that has a much brighter outlook than the way i 'm making it sound. To be honest, I haven 't even experienced that much in life, the closest loss of a loved one I truly remember is my good friend and neighbor since childhood, Marcos Valdez, Rest in Peace. I 've been robbed by gunpoint, I 've had failed relationships (who hasn 't?), I 've stolen things and went paid the price for it (thank god it was right before I turned 18), I 've been in fights and I 've gotten jumped, I 've lied, i 've cheated (not in relationships, but pretty much …show more content…
Will it succeed? Who knows. At least I 'm trying. I 've cried thinking about my lost brother, Marcos. Did that solve anything? No, he 's still gone. But I felt much better after that. It 's alright to cry. I don 't do it often, but there are times that certainly call for it, like seeing my mother cry when my father cheated for the hundredth time. It 's horrible seeing your mother cry. That 's just one way to cope, probably not the best way for most other situations, but for that one, my tears definitely worked, probably more so for her than for me. She loves me and i 'm happy to be there for her smile