Don't Panic

My perspective in life is to always keep calm. Don't freak out. Life is coming, things are happening. So deal with it.

Things that happen to you are things that happen. There are no good things or bad things. There are just things. Things happen. After they happened, they become the things that happened. I had decided at a very young age that lamenting things which have happened is pointless. So, too, is lamenting that which may happen, which is happening, or which might've happened. Things happen the way that they do because that is the way that they happen and if they happened differently then everything down the line --- your entire future, which is now your present --- would not have happened the way that it did.

If there is no evil then we could never understand good. The same theory applies here. The things which happen to us make us grow and shape who we are. It may sound cliche; but I find that many time people don't take the time to sit down and actually consider the deeper meaning behind the cliche. We say these things, like: "Always look on the bright side!" or "Pain builds character" with all the thought of a child saying the pledge of allegiance. These so-called cliches are like songs to us and we rarely consider the words. And when we don't understand them as children then, as adults, we even use them as distractions to escape difficult questions
posed by our children, half heartedly, and the message is lost. How many times have you felt that "XXX builds character," was simply a way for yoru parents to get you to do something unpleasant? How many times have you wondered what "character" exactly was and why you even cared to have so much of it? Consider it now.

I did. Diabetes meant that I was probably going to have to take insulin for the rest of my life... And give up sugar? ...probably. And many other things. Stuff happens. It's not bad or good. I could sit around moping and getting depressed ---

---or

I could see this as a what it is. A problem. Every problem has a solution. So now there are some choices that I must make to fix the problem. But EVERY problem has a solution. There is no reason to give up, EVER. See problem, act to solve. Grow stronger. Live.