As I read about the people on here struggling to get through all this, it makes me think of some things I thought I'd share.

In this life, we come to expect it to go a certain way.

But then life throws us some tough stuff from time to time.

We experience illnesses, death, miscarriages, divorce, etc. We think we cannot possibly get through them and yet we do.

Some of us come out stronger, some not so much. Some become bitter and some do not.

The difference, I think, in how we survive is not so much how tough we are, but, in how open we are.

We only get this one shot. And we get to choose how we take it.

I think that we should just do the very best we can. And maybe, if we are very lucky, happiness and peace comes from knowing we did.