Day 70

'Everything but the Kitchen Sink?' Pen on Paper

It's been one of those weeks that makes me realise that things only seem to go wrong at the most inopportune moments, nothing ever falls apart until the point that you really need everything to stay together the most. It brings to mind that old saying, which I have decided to modify for the modern cynical times we live in, that now reads that 'it never rains but it rains shit'. I say this as for some reason it's never just one thing that goes wrong, instead it's a series of ever increasingly unfortunate events that leaves you disorientated, distraught and unable to comprehend just how it got to this point and how in the hell you can manage to cope with it. What makes these events more devastating is that they normally catch us unaware after a period of prolonged contentment. The ability to recover from having things explode in an instant is anything but, instead it takes time to piece everything back together and get yourself on an even keel again. Due to the nature of how this phenomenon takes place it means that it is something that we will never be able to avoid or be prepared enough that it doesn't faze us. However there is a certain type of resilience inherent in all of us that helps us to find some way to deal with those times when things collapse around us. To refer to something I actually spoke about quite recently with regards to the coping mechanisms we use to deal with problems, is that finding the way to deal with any problem is normally born out of experience. Now to refer to something I spoke about many 'draws' ago as well is how, 'nothing is a waste of time if we use the experience wisely', so then when life throws everything but the kitchen sink at us it's by calling on our own experiences, the experiences of those around us and the experiences that we are just being subjected to that we understand just how exactly we can cope and re enter a new prolonged period of contentment.