Until the moment life hits you

You can try to prepare but nothing compares to the moment when life actually hits you. When you finally realize how messy, broken, and beautiful it all is. Then eventually you accept how you cannot tame the wind. That the storms will come and the only thing you can do is persist. Because that is what life is about. Learning to be still in the wind, standing your ground when the rain falls because the only thing that makes it better is you not leaving yourself. No matter how hard it gets.