Figured I might help you put some of this in perspective.
This year I have...
1. Dated and got dumped by possibly the most wonderful woman I have ever known, because she wasn't ready to start dating.
2. Went on a two week vacation. When I got there, I got sick. When I got better, and was ready to go enjoy my trip, the region got hit by the worst flooding in 100 years. That was my two weeks.
3. Got a disease that supposedly only very young children get. Not the same thing that happened on the trip.
4. Lost my car in an accident after being t-boned by a BMW doing 60 in a 25, but due to vagaries of traffic law and some really bizzare coincidences, the accident was technically my fault.
5. Took up bicycling, and got run off the road four times, and got run off the sidewalk by a car once.
6. Watched helplessly as a woman was bumped, fell, and rolled under a bus's wheels.
You know what?
I've been where you are, and I know the score. It's all you can do to keep your chin off the floor. But if you're wearing a grin when they hand you your hat, well, the world's grinnin' too, and baby that's where it's at!
(Cribbed shamelessly from "Sometimes you do the best you can" by Indigo Swing.)
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