Overall

What can I say, things have been rough lately. I'll spare you the details.

If there is anything I am able to take away from the recent hell that my life has become, it is that I need to adjust my perception of good and bad. Too many times have I seen only the good in people, or expected that things were going to get better, "everything is going to be okay". This is unrealistic, because everything sucks a little bit. And if i try to be completely optimistic all of the time, I will be constantly disappointed.

Not to say that I am going to become jaded and pessimistic. I am simply going to adjust my expectations, and try to eliminate them completely. Not expecting good, not expecting bad. Doing what I can to be a good person and accept that bad things will constantly be happening and that I cannot take them all to heart.

I'm still hoping that things will get better. But I'm adjusting to them being bad.