Is this cake eating? 10

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NLW, you and I could be sisters. I was raised similarly and I had a very clear sense of right/wrong, black/white. If you work hard and do the right things it will all be OK.

That's a fairy tale. Life kicks all of us in the teeth sometimes, that's what life is, taking the good with the bad and moving forward, being the person we want to be guided by, as Mach says, honor, dignity and grace

If what we believed about right and wrong was was true parents wouldn't lose babies to disease, or war or the effects of poverty. Husbands and wives would take care of each other, our parents wouldn't get Alzheimer's and waste away.

My current thread is titled "Living in the Gray" because I have learned to move from those extremes of black and white and be comfortable with not controlling things, with everything not being just as I think it should be, that sometimes what I think is best just isn't.

We were never in control.

And getting OK with that is when we finally move forward and can handle anything that life has to throw at us.