Everyone wants to do everything they can as best they can. That is not a lot to strive for; in fact, that is exactly what we should strive for in our lives. Life can turn upside down in a matter of minutes or seconds and we always have to prepare for the worst. Well, once you think you have it all together, everything flips for the worst.

I totally have been in that position more times than I can count but the outcomes were all the same: I was okay in the end.

Let's be honest. Nobody has the "perfect" life, even though it may look like they live the perfect college life with a perfect body, tons of friends, and constantly getting attention on social media. That is not always the case. Behind that Instagram profile is a person with real life problems and messy situations they have to get through. We are all messy! Life is messy! And we have to all come to terms with that at some point or we will be living in a fake reality that is not realistic.

Everyone has problems; big and small. We all have worries, doubts, hopes, and dreams but they will never work out exactly the way we plan it. That just means we were not meant to go down that path. We were saved from some trouble we could have gotten ourselves into. I really do believe everything happens for a reason and the closing of certain doors means the opening of brand new ones.

When life throws some tough times at us we need to learn to entrance it and take the challenges we are handed. I have learned that in the last few weeks and I am still trying to adjust to everything life has intensely thrown at me.

There is no such thing as a perfect person, a perfect life, or a perfect situation. If everything and everyone was perfect we would all be the same. Our struggles show us how far we have come and what we are capable of doing. They are milestones for us and I think if we all looked at our messy lives in that perspective we would all be a little happier.

Nobody has a perfect year, so we should never expect a perfect life. I think it is a lot to ask to have a "perfect" life. We can never expect things to go our way. We need to be able to recognize our downfalls and problems that life throws at us. They make us stronger.

I know this all sounds cliché, but it is all sometime we tend to forget about ourselves and others. It is always okay to not be okay. It is always okay to feel broken, because that means you are healing and bettering yourself. It is always okay to have bad days because better ones are coming in the future. We can all be a mess together, and we can all heal together.