Life Just Happens 

We make our plans and we arrange our lives around them 

But life doesn’t happen according to our plans it just happens 

As it happens always at least partially out of our control 

Sometimes completely and utterly out of our control 

We can choose to fight it with all our might  

But that’s like fighting a riptide by swimming straight back to shore 

All you’ll do is tire yourself out and drown 

You can’t fight life by swimming directly against it you’ve got to cut across the grain  

And swim parallel to the current that threatens to take you out into the dep ocean 

Then once you’re out of the current taking you, you can swim back to the shore and safety 

Life just happens regardless of our plans and despite them 

Life just happens regardless of your plans and dreams  

You can keep treading water till you’re blue in the face but just treading water just trying to stay afloat  

Will accomplish nothing you’ve got to make a swim for it 

Welcome to life currents dragging you far out from the shore 

Far from your comfort zones 

Where it will drag you kicking and screaming towards your inevitable end 

Welcome to the deep end 

Where there are no safety lines 

Where the waves raise high and threaten to drown 

Where the only way to survive is to swim either with the currents or across them