You’re going to make it.
I know you don’t feel great right now. I know you’re having a crappy day. A crappy month. A crappy decade. I know this isn’t your best life.
I know your whole world is falling apart. I know your father is dying of pancreatic cancer. I know your daughter just passed away from a drug overdose. I get it.
Your grandchild has life threatening bone cancer. Your car was repossessed last night. Your dog died. You’re ill.
Your husband cheated on you with a younger woman. Your dad has a neurological disease. Your mother passed away. Your dad died by suicide. You are going blind.
You have breast cancer. You’ve lost everything. You’re a young man who was convicted by a jury of your peers, and now you’re probably going to jail. You are an alcoholic, and you don’t know what to do about it.
You’re scared. You don’t sleep. You don’t eat. The doctor is suggesting chemo.
At night, sometimes, you lie there wondering what the point is. Why keep living? Why live a life that’s nothing but pain? You’re starting to
lose steam. You’re starting to get tired.
I don’t blame you. But—and I want you to listen to me closely here—you are going to make it.
I actually believe this. Wholeheartedly. In fact, I would bet a million dollars on it.
Sadly, I don’t have a million bucks because I am an English major. So—let just me empty my wallet here—I will happily bet $11 cash that you are going to be okay.
Now, I know what you’re thinking:
“This schmuck doesn’t even know me. How the heck can he know whether I’ll be okay? He’s just writing a bunch of hyper-emotional B.S. He doesn’t know my life.”
And you know what? You’re absolutely right, to be perfectly frank. For starters, I DON’T know anything, so how can I know whether you’ll…