Yeah, it's impossible to know for sure, because the common folk never have all the details, but it appears that that pesky minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is still "stuck" at 89 seconds to midnight - way too close for anything resembling comfort, but unlikely to advance even closer anytime soon.
I'm listening to the downpour in Vang Vieng while Pan snores beside me. We are on an adventure away from home. Home is Udon Thani.
I write that to convince myself that that's the truth. Rain and snores. Ants in the coffee cup. Supper at Oh La La... yep. I'm a creative writer but this is more truth than anything I could ever make up.
Part of me is still in Montana... and in Kansas... and in Costa Rica... and where I grew up.
The emotional, physical, mental tolls? I'm a lot stronger than I ever thought I was.
You know, life's just full of chaos. Sometimes you just have to laugh at the craziness of it all. I think you have the right attitude. You just got to roll with the punches sometimes. Life is a whole bed of chaos. You never know what's coming your way.
Life is still not what I would consider even close to normal, but then again what isn't normal is becoming so commonplace as to be the new normal, I guess.
The only thing that stays the same is change.
I've said that phrase for as long as I can remember to help myself get through life. To remember that we are meant to grow and only do so through both joy and sorrow. Change doesn't care if you like it or hate it. It just is.
For a while now, I have been hating it. Still, it doesn't care.
When I think back about other difficult times, I realize that in the moment, they were everything. As if the world could end tomorrow based upon what was currently happening... but it didn't then... and I'm fairly certain it won't now.
So, here is to waking up this morning and being given the chance to do something, anything.
That in itself is a beautiful gift and not one that everyone receives.
Let all of us who got it today do the best we can with it.
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