Reality

I imagine that nothing can be more frustrating than when reality doesn't match expectations. At least that's true for me. The resulting stress, anger, sadness, and overall feeling of despiration mix together to make for less than pleasant result.

Not that reality always matches expectations - in fact, it probably seldom does. Life is, afterall, not a predicatable thing - at least is shouldn't be. How boring would that be? But when what shows up in life is so far from what you thought would happen, we're talking about the other end of the spectrum.

Sure, life is a constant barrage of what we didn't plan or what we don't have control of - but what I'm talking about is those events that we 'seemingly' have total control over and put much effort into planning - and then, everything falls on its face.

That happened to me yesterday. It's happened before, and will probably happen again - and until I learn to handle it better, I'll continue to feel like I do today.

If I wanted to be around anyone, I'd through myself a pitty party.

Enter in; prayer, perspective, endurance, self examination, attitued adjustment, reality check.