"We thought it was a rough patch, but it turned out to be our life." - B.E. Kaplan

Today at work we had a meeting about communication, and this quote was posted.

I've been thinking a lot about how in life something really great will happen, and then something not so great comes along. And it doesn't diminish from that really great thing, but it does serve to remind us that life is not easy.

Perhaps this is because God-doesn't-believe-in-the-easy-way, as one of my favorite characters says in Agee's A Death in the Family, but for whatever reason, life is hard. It is messy, it is painful, and it is tough.

The thing is, we get to choose how we respond to it, and that's where the beauty comes in.