life and other mishaps

Today started off more pleasant than normal, but slowly, near silently ended in epic fail. How does this even happen? How can we go from bliss to stress in a matter of hours? Life, that's how. The unforeseeable future. It always rears its ugly head just when we're at our happiest, testing our strength, our resolve, our sanity. It comes in the form of mouthy teenagers, cluttered garages and financial aid offices that don't return calls. Sometimes life is something like an overgrown backyard, that takes some elbow grease and putting your back into it. Other times, it's a broken down car that could have used some TLC yesterday to keep it running today. Ahhh and this is where the 20/20 of hindsight comes in. Sometimes we see life coming right at us, and we ignore the signs. We get cocky. We think life wont do it to us again. We're above it. Life is an equal opportunity pain in the ass. And most times, Life succeeds in fucking shit up. But after Life's rampage, it always leaves us with clarity, accomplishment and perseverance.
Friedrich Nietzsche said "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger" . Very True. It doesn't kills us,it pisses us off. But it does make us stronger. So here's to the unforeseeable future; you may have ruffled my feathers and raised my blood pressure, but you didn't break me. Not today, anyway.