Posts Tagged ‘acceptance’

Look at the bright side … this too shall pass … keep the faith.

I write a lot of articles about hanging in when life gets tough. Endurance is a gift. If you can just will yourself to outlast the pain, heartache, discouragement, loneliness, confusion, and grief life throws your way, eventually things will get better. Where there is life, there is hope.

Several years ago, I worked with a woman in her 40s who’d always wanted to find her soul mate. She finally met “Mr. Right,” the two were engaged to marry and planning their wedding … when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He left her to fight her cancer battle and die alone. A few days ago I learned of a similar situation, and it brought home the reality that some mountains cannot be moved and cannot be scaled. And some things will not get better in this lifetime. So how can you find comfort when all really is lost?

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When I was little, kids didn’t get the food choices they get now. Parents and schools spooned it onto the plate and that was it—take it or leave it. For the most part, I took it. But my stomach instinctively rebelled at one staple of the school diet: the unidentifiable meat.

Oh, the lunch ladies could tell me it was beef, chicken, or fish. But if it came in a pressed patty that I couldn’t readily identify as beef, chicken, or fish, forget it. My stomach would not accept it no matter how carefully it was disguised by sauces, gravies, cheese, or buns. So I missed a lot of post-lunch recesses while lunchroom aides forced me to sit glumly at the table and keep poking at the blob with my fork before finally letting me go.

Maybe I should have been schooling them.

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