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Life happens - no I didn't say Sh%t happens but LIFE! Now not everything in life is great or happens as we feel it should or want it to...regardless, LIFE happens. Some things you can control - Hmmm what will I wear, what will I eat, etc... Then there are those things you can't - those things that you usually say right after saying "wow, I can't believe that happened..." or " wow, I can't believe he/she did that or said that".

The trick is to figure out that the only thing any of us can really control is our response to this thing called LIFE. When LIFE throws curve balls, and it will, what do you do? What are your options? There are a multitude of responses to LIFE but which would be the best response? What is the ultimate choice? Here's a few of them:
  1. Get angry... At the situation and everybody involved directly or indirectly and lash out. But hmm, how does that help? Does LIFE care that you got angry?
  2. Seek revenge...The goal is of course to get even but with who...LIFE? 
  3. Withdraw ...from your family, from your friends basically from LIFE in general.
  4. Cry...Can be cleansing and might help you release some emotions that LIFE created.
  5. Accept...That LIFE isn't always going to be peaches and cream - and really who wants that anyway? (Sounds kinda gross) 
#5 is my personal favorite - okay sometimes it starts off with #4 but I try to focus on #5. It's actually the basis of my mantra - ACCEPT, ADAPT OR MIGRATE. If things don't go the way I want them to or wish they would, I ACCEPT that that's just LIFE. At that point, I ADAPT to whatever curveball LIFE has thrown at me as best I can. If all else fails and I cannot ADAPT to the situation, it's time to MIGRATE...AKA move on and let LIFE do it's thing.
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