The feeling of falling is an interesting one, just falling and falling until finally hitting the rock hard ground, staring up at the sky, and wondering how you ended up there. What can you do? Sit and listen to Fight Song by Rachel Platten on repeat and wait to get inspired by it? Reading inspirational quotes? “Never Give Up” or my personal favorite, “Chin up, stay strong, fake a smile, move on”. Is that what you’re supposed to do?

Do you sit around and wait for someone to give you a handout? Wait for someone to take your hand and walk you through everything? Show you the ropes of how to pick yourself back up when you fall.

Or continue laying on the ground, sub come to a bottle of alcohol and try to drink away the world. Drink yourself until there’s nothing left to feel.

This thing called Adulthood, we’re all just thrust into it. We graduate high school and are thrown into the world to fend for ourselves. All we know is the Pythagorean Theorem and how to find “x”.

So is it time to give up? Time to give in?

No. Never.

You get up, dust yourself off, and keep pushing forward. Being an adult isn’t a walk in the park. It makes you realize that sometimes life is against you, hoping and waiting for you to fail. Which just gives more incentive to succeed. Hitting one road block isn’t the end of the line, you try a different path. You keep climbing and clawing your way out of the hole until you get to the top and see that the view is beautiful.

Then you smile once you see how far you’ve come.

Life threw me down as far as it could. I clawed my way out of that deep, dark hole and couldn’t be happier with my life.