Aunt Eller was Right

"You got to look at all the good on one side and all the bad on the other and say 'Well, alright then.'" - Aunt Eller, Oklahoma

There is, at every moment, good and bad.  Tough and easy.  Happy and sad.  Life gets hard a lot.  But it is also easy.  All you really have to do is breathe, in and out.  Over and over. 

I have had a few days where that was about all I could do.  And I got through.  Most everybody does. 

I keep thinking about the two boys that decided that they couldn't get through.  I just cannot imagine the depth of pain or misery that they must have reached to have decided that tomorrow wasn't worth it.  

I cannot imagine.  

I just try to remember what Aunt Eller said and just know that that is the way it is.  I cannot change much of what happens around me or even to me, but I can change the way I use it.  And I can be kind.