Roll With The Punches

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. That’s the saying. But it’s not always so simple. Things happen to us sometimes that we aren’t prepared for. We just have to “roll with the punches” as they say.

When a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness, it hits people in different ways. Some give up on life and commit suicide or go into a major depression. It’s rough when someone tells you that you have something that there isn’t a cure for. There is remarkable medicine out here to treat certain illnesses but that doesn’t erase the emotional pain behind the diagnosis. People tell me these things and I see statistics about these things all the time.

Death is a hard process but the way that you lose a loved one is what makes it so difficult. Some people pass away of illness or old age while others are victims of “being at the wrong place at the wrong time”, shot down because they look like the person somebody was after, mad at one another for unknown reasons that sometimes turn out to be something not worth fighting about. People always yell “freedom ain’t free.” Freedom is free until you do something to lose it.

Racism is hard to experience. It’s worse now that it was when it first started. Black lives matter, Blue lives matter. Really people? Let’s be serious. ALL lives Matter. Christ died on the cross for all of our sins. Not just white, black or any other race. Love more, hate less. If we do that, the world will be in better shape.

These days, people help other people because they want something in return. If I do this for you then what are you going to do for me? It’s almost like truth or dare. The person is honest with you (truth) and you want to know what they are willing to do (dare). Just because you are successful now, don’t forget you were once that person who needed help and truth be told, you still do. Some people just have too much pride or are ashamed.

Some people have a pedestal mindset. Putting themselves higher than everyone else. But that person forgot where they came from. They got educated and they think that they literally “know it all”. Have you ever heard of an educated fool? I have.

Public service announcement: Having a child before you are married does not make you less of a woman. Being a mother is a privilege. Embrace it. Never blame a child for being here. They are not an accident, or a mistake so don’t treat them that way and definitely, don’t tell them that. That is the worst thing you can ever do to a child. Regardless of what people say, you can plan for a million years, but parenting is something nobody is ever prepared for.

Our words are the most deadliest weapon on this Earth. You never know what a person is going to say or do. Sure, guns and knives can hurt and kill people. That’s a given. But words are deadly. I’m not talking about bullying, name-calling or cussing out. I’m talking about how a person may say something to you so bad that at the time, makes you mad or cry but when you get home, you can’t really explain how to feel. You just re-think the moment over and over again, driving yourself crazy.

Rolling with the punches is a part of life. Take things one day at a time. As the saying goes: Your present situation is not your final destination.