Problems

Having problems is like using leach therapy to change your health. Problems drain you, emotionally or mentally or however, but in turn they change you in little ways, and hopefully you become a healthier and more understanding person. Likewise, if you let the problem/leech fester too long, then you've got more problems.

At this point in the conflict plot line the housewives of New Jersey would probably flip tables to get attention, or they would halt all conflict/resolution by saying, "Blood's thicker than wata." And very soon after that they would go back to their own lives and find other ways to prove themselves, like writing a tell all book or procreating and signing those children up for acting lessons.

Confession: I know too much about Housewives of New Jersey.

Don't be like those people.

Allow yourself to have problems, but move past them quickly because you will have them everywhere you go, big or small.

While laying in bed, I was thinking of stuff and then I was thinking of things, and then I realized that, wow, if I wasn't thinking of this stuff and these things, then I'd probably fret over other little things, like how I never mailed a letter back to that camper from 4 years ago (but really, someone has to stop the letter writing at some point. Right? No? Should I write her back?).

And so I hope you can see the never ending cycle. Society says, yes, beat yourself up for not meeting that other person at a certain status. But the Lord says, you will screw up. You sin. It's what you do. "I am the way." You can either spend your life trying to pay a penance for it or you can accept forgiveness, forgive yourself, forgive others, and move on.


Note: Self help books weird me out. So does Dr. Phil.