the choice

sometimes, things don't turn out exactly
the way we thought they would.

or exactly how we planned them to.

or quite how we had hoped.

but i guess that's life.

things happen.  out of our control.

what i've learned (time and time again) is that although some things
(or a lot of things) that happen to us can be out-of-our-control,*

we don't lose control of how we react to them.** 

Okay, sometimes (or oftentimes), the tears can come uncontrollably
 and self-pity can cloud our minds, but after that ...

we have a choice.

And I'm choosing ...

(everything that happens is from now on.)

*Death of loved ones, accidents, losing a job, heartbreak, fill-in-the-blank.

**After a storm, there's always a rainbow.

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