“If we don’t change the world to suit us…then it’ll change us to suit it.” (Charles de Lint’s Memory and Dream. p. 17)
I keep coming back to this quote. How often do we float with life, letting it act upon us instead of molding it the way we want it to be? If we don’t want to be battered and beaten by the battles around us, we need to make the decisions that allow us to get out.
Finish school.
Get training.
Leave the deadbeat.
Take the anti-depressants.
Apply for the dream job.
Write the book.
Go on that trip.
We have to take control of who we want to be and make our life happen. We have to get over the small fears to experience the greater benefit. If we don’t, we have no reason to complain when life sweeps us along the gutter and dumps us unceremoniously into the settling pond.
Shawn L. Bird 
The “settling pond” is such an apt phrase!
Thanks, CC. I appreciate you stopping by.