This is a counter to my previous whine session, of which I am still a little embarrassed.
Life is hard. Work sucks. Nothing is fair. I'm tired.
Wah, wah, wah.
We all have felt the above at some point. It may be we are feeling that way right now. I know I am. But wallowing never lifted one up. The more you move around in the muck, the more entrenched in it you become. Sometimes there is only one answer, one solution. Tried and true, I have found it never fails.
Lose yourself and go to work.
As a missionary there were some days that felt simply hopeless. I was exhausted, sick, far from home and everything I had known for me entire life. Living in a dingy apartment, eating (very little) weird food, showering in the rain (I mean this quite literally, there were days where the easiest way to shower was to just stand in the rain since we didn't have running water), and walking and working your butt off only to have door after door slammed in your face, dogs unleashed when you were around (pit bulls and rotweilers are the favorite breeds in Guate), pretty vicious lies told about, and fleas (yes I had fleas) is not the most exciting way to spend day after day.
My father, one of my heroes, wrote me a letter. It was simple and one of the two letters I received from him when I was serving. He reminded me that I wasn't there for myself. I was there to loose myself and go to work.
Just as important in my life today, I need to remember to lose myself and go to work. Whatever that work may be, whether at school, at home, at church, I need to immerse myself in that. I'm probably not the only one either.
I see it in those around me. Gossiping, murmuring, muttering about what they hate and why they hate it. Reminding themselves every chance they get that life sucks, is unfair and they are miserable. News Flash! Life will always suck if you want it to. It will invariably be unfair so stop acting surprised. And work can be hell if you think about it hard enough.
So get over yourself, go to work, and do the best you can.
I am trying too.