Just a Ride

Music: Jem, Just a ride

I was studying today (like every day) in the Med School Library. During one (of my many) breaks, I glanced up to see a textbook on the shelf entitled the "Textbook of Pain". No joke. How utterly appropriate. Now, there wasn't one volume on the Textbook of Pain, there were four. Think about it. Someone actually took the time out of their life to fill up four books about all the pain that exists in this world. One just wasn't enough. Fifty probably wouldn't cut it.

Fact of the matter is, life is hard. Life hurts. But it's only as difficult as you let it be. Nothing you ever really want comes that easily. It seems futile to plan for things that never seem to turn out the way you expected them to anyway. But we all still do it, regardless of how many times we've been disappointed in the past.

Are we running in circles? Possibly. Will we over find ourselves on a straightaway again? Probably not. Why? Beceause despite all the heartache, pain--turmoil--that we put each other through, there's still hope. Still hope that there's something better out there--that everything we have ever experienced, lived through, put up with--was not all in vain.

So we can either choose to add to the volumes upon volumes on the "Textbook of Pain", or, we can write our own stories. Live our own lives, and have faith. Because in the end, that's all we've got. And quite frankly, it's all worth living for.