As you settle and ground,
Close your eyes.
Take a deep inhale.
Let it all go.
Welcome to a hit of hope.
Are you tired of trying to hold it all together?
Are you tired of trying to control what cannot be controlled?
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Things break.
Life goes sideways.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Sometimes there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
There isn't anything you can do to make it go away or to make it okay.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Sometimes the only thing you can do is to try and right size this.
Make it more manageable.
Sometimes the only thing you can do is to endure.
And when you are given a practice of endurance,
Let's be honest,
It's a bitch.
But one good thing is that when the goal is simple endurance,
You are not fighting to become something or earn a gold star.
To endure is to sit in a chair.
To endure is to take a drink of fresh water.
To endure is to breathe in.
Breathe out.
Simple stuff endures the best.
Rocks endure.
Friends endure.
You will endure.
You will endure as you walk through this dark.
You will endure tomorrow and the next day and the next.
You will endure until this begins to fade into memory.
And then you will not be who you once were.
You will be stronger,
Braver.
You will have badass battle scars that you can show off to anyone and everyone.
But until then,
No matter what happens,
Remember,
There is always time for a new story to take hold.
Namaste.