Unbreakable

We've all had those days, those classes, those relationships, those friendships, that we feel like nothing can touch. There is no way that anything could mess up the progress or the closeness or just the general feeling of peace that seems to engulf us at every moment. Every one of us has been there. We love it. We thrive on it. We honestly believe that whatever it is, it's going so well that it will NEVER go wrong....but then it does. What then? What do we do when our perfect day gets ruined with horrible news? What do we do when we fail the big test in that class? What do we do when we lose that person that was 'The One' for so long? What do we do when we lose our very best friend? Do you want the truth? We hurt. We lose our confidence. We reevaluate. We grieve. We run from the pain. We repress it. We don't face it because we don't know if we're strong enough to handle it. We break down when it all comes out and we're forced to deal with it. Then, just when we think there is no possiblity of things ever improving at all.....we start to move on. It gets a little bit easier. It doesn't hurt quite as much as it did the day before. We learn to deal. We work harder in the class. We learn to be on our own and not depend on someone else to make us happy. We build ourselves up for the next time we break because we all know it's going to happen. We go on with our lives. We find new loves. We make new friends. We fix the cracks. We begin to realize that we aren't unbreakable. We start to accept the fact that we're human and it's expected for us to break every now and then. No one is invincible. Even Superman has a weakness. We have to learn what our Kryptonite is and find ways to avoid it. We have to know our weakness and know how to deal with it. We have to realize that we're going to break. We simply have to learn how to just be HUMAN.