Life ...

... is about learning to deal ...

... is about learning to cope with a situation. You learn to cope, you learn what works for you, you cope fine and then you challenge yourself to a bigger situation, more stressful, more responsibility, more of a learning curve. Repeat. Repeat until eternity, until the day you finally rest your body on this planet and return to the earth from whence you came ...

... is about learning to manage, to improvise, to go with the situation; learning when to let go and when to take a stand ...

... is learning what is important to you. What you value. Where you want to go. When you have found your path you may still find that you are fighting yourself, but not as much as when you were still searching and chasing red herrings ...

... is about acceptance ...

... is about growth and exploration, curiosity and a sense of wonderment, laughter and appreciation of the small moments in life ...

... is learning how to wear a mask when you need to, because the world does not want to see your naked emotions. The world only wants to see one side of you - most of the world, that is, and even if this majority is not the people who are important to you, they are the ones you must deal with, they define the confines in which you find yourself. You can make your own rules, but you will find that there are still other people's rules to which you must adhere ...

... is both beautiful and hideous. Life does not exist without the extremes and neither do people ...

... is Life. At the end of the day, it is no more and no less than that.