Sometimes Life's Just Hard

Like when your car dies on Christmas Eve and the cost to fix it is 2,500 dollars. You learn to live with one car. Or when the day after Christmas a grandparent dies (at least it wasn't Christmas Day...which happened last year). Sometimes your "vacation" makes you more tired than real life, and you come home and are looking forward to normal every day life. Somewhere along the way, between the swearing, the crying, and asking are we going to be okay? how are we going to make this work, you think,"Welcome to life". Has there ever been a year when something hard or bad didn't happen? If it hadn't been the car, it would have been something else. At least you and your spouse are healthy. You're not homeless, or hungry. You're both employed, you have one car that runs. You have TV and movies to watch, a dog. Shoot you went on a 10 day cruise in May. Family who is helping you out. Sure I could make a list just as long of the not so good stuff. But who couldn't? I know plenty of people whose list would be longer. I know lots of people I wouldn't trade places with. So yeah, sometimes life is hard. But it could always be harder.