Tunnels and lights and whatnot.

The challenges of life can come at you from every angle sometimes. I am not complaining about it as much as recognizing the diversity and complexity of life's challenges that I have generally overlooked. And I think, as change is an ever-present force in life, that even when it can feel forced(as it often does) that life's challenges change us for the better. My challenges lately have started to force a perspective change on me. A recognition of the impermanence of even the most valued and seemingly stable things in life. The importance of planning forward regardless of the unknown and imperceptible and unimaginable... moving forward into the blank canvas of my future. Maybe all of this has a bit of an embittered, bleak or negative vibe to it but that's not the point. My hope is still strong as is my optimism and expectation for great things to come. Life is good. It just becomes a story all on its own and I am fine with each new chapter... even the unexpected ones.