Wash-ed Away.

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 Sometimes, it just falls apart.

Just when you think you have it all together.  Just when everything seems to be back in balance.  Just when the last piece of the puzzle fits.

Shit. just. falls. apart.

But, that's life.  Newly sculpted sandcastles are washed away by crashing waves.  Perfectly constructed block piles tumble to the ground with a slight breeze.  Delicious scoops of ice cream melt immediately in the summer sun.

Life injects these biting moments of vulnerability to show us that we can always build something better, something stronger, something more beautiful.

We all fall apart so we can put ourselves back together a different way.  So, here's to rebuilding...

Overwhelm-ed? Sweat it out.

Let’s take a moment to talk about how silly we can be sometimes.

Yesterday afternoon I left work late, feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.  I contemplated going home and throwing myself a grand pity party (I am in event planning, after all).  Luckily, however, the bus route I take passes directly in front of the gym I belong to (this was a strategic decision on my part) and so I hopped off the bus and decided I was going to put all of the negative energy buzzing around in my body towards running the hardest 30 minutes I could.  Man, I have never felt so good on a treadmill before!  With every surge in the music, I pushed the up button on the speed monitor.  I left feeling like I could take on the world.

It’s amazing what a little sweat can do.  And that’s all it took to put things in perspective.  If all I needed was a hard run to wash my “problems” away, they probably weren’t really worth worrying about in the first place.