Rough Day

You can't always control the future.

This is something I told myself just a little while ago that made me feel 100% better about how my last few days have been.

 To give you a short background, my grandfather just passed away a few days ago, right before finals week at school. I came home and am going through the process of the funeral and everything while at the same time trying not to fail my first ever college final exam. Then on top of that I have been having boy problems, which we aren't going to go into detail about. But basically, it has been a rough past week and I am getting stressed and overwhelmed more and more easily.

Bu then I stopped while sitting next to this fire at my home, looking at the lights on our perfectly-shaped Christmas tree, and a thought popped up into my head out of nowhere; "you can't always control the future. You can't control everything." And I pondered this and realized that it is absolutely true. I can't control everything that happens in my life. I couldn't control my grandpa passing. I can't control my feelings for someone. I can't control the timing of the situation.

There is something I can control, though.

I can always control my reactions. I can control how I respond to the situations I am given. I can either be grumpy and complain about it or I can take a deep breath and relax and take things as they are. Because things like this happen to everyone. I'm not the only person in the world that is having a bad week, I'm sure. And many people in the world have problems that dwarf mine.

So if you are like me and having a bad week or just feeling down and out of luck, know that I have been there before; we've all been there before. And remember:

You can't always control the future. But you can always control how you react to it.