Life

Never have I been told by someone, "Life is so easy." For a two year old, life is easy but it isn't always going to be that way. Part of life is decisions. These decisions may just be what you are going to have for dinner or where you plan on getting gas after work. However some decisions are far from easy. The decision on where to go to college, what you will study, how you will pay for it and if you don't go to school, how do you plan on getting a job, where will you live? In life, we often hope that things are handed to us or that once we have a bachelors degree, finding and keeping a job until retirement will be a breeze.

Someone told me recently that once I get married, everything will be easier. I'm not married and I don't plan on getting married tomorrow but I know better than to believe that marriage will make life easier. My parents have been married over 25 years and they would say that marriage isn't always flowers and butterflies. Financially, mentally, and emotionally, it can get very exhausting.

However, I can only imagine how much children add onto the financial, mental, and emotional exhaustion in a marriage. Children aren't born fed, clothed, and educated.  In high school I often heard, "If we had a baby, we'd still be together." The only reason you would still be together is because babies aren't free. By the time a baby gets to be 18 it will cost about $100,000. I don't know about you but when I was a senior in high school, I will living off the change in my car.

Now I don't want this post to be degrading but lately I've been overestimating how easy life is. I think that I know how my next 5 years look and honestly it's all crap. Only God knows what the future holds and believe me, nobody will have an easy life.

Life is hard. As humans we need to accept this and move on.  We can't dwell on the past and let it haunt us today. We also need to be careful about how much we rub our life in other peoples faces. When you have something exciting happening in your life, make sure that you aren't seeking out a reason to talk about it. On the flip side, people also don't want to hear about how terrible your life has been all the time.  Negative people can be very hard to spend time with. I know that I have a friend who deals with a lot of medical problems and often times will look for sympathy. It's a part of our friendship that takes a lot of patience. Just remember that God knows what is going on in your life and there is a reason that he has those things occurring. Life is hard. The day you accept that and move on, you will feel better about yourself and your decisions.