This too shall pass

When I was a little girl I used to anticipate every fun event for weeks. My birthday, a day out with school or the holidays would become a deadline on my calendar and I would count the days until the date was due.

I became fascinated with the brevity of the happy moments. The day out with school lasted just one day and the day after I was in class again and doing boring homework, so over the years I have learnt to extrapolate that feeling to the unhappy moments and to be aware that whatever I am going through right now, it will pass. If it’s good I should seize it and enjoy it, if it’s bad I should accept it and try to get over it because tomorrow will be another day.