Crazy Like a Squirrel

Normally when I blog I write my own, however, my good buddy and cousin has written a blog that applies to my life as well so I decided that I would post it to. Now, credit where it is due, the author of the following blog was written by Brandon Strickland.

Crazy Like a Squirrel

Someone said life comes at you fast. I say most of the time life walks right up to you, kicks you in the crotch, then gives you a swirly while stealing your lunch money. And for the most part these last couple of years have proven that true. Trust was eroded, stability lost and it felt like I was swimming upstream tied to a sack full of anvils. Life by its very nature is a fight. I guess the biggest thing I wrestled with is whether I wanted to be a thermometer or a thermostat. I still catch myself just reflecting the heat I feel from this old world far too often. I long to be the type person who changes his environment. Masters it. To set my thermostat at sunny and 75 even if it's storming and 40.

It's not all bad tho. Sometimes you smile as you crawl "to freedom through five-hundred yards of edit:-) smelling foulness" like Red said of Andy Dufrence. Other times tho you get a real reason to smile. Sometimes something, or someone, so amazing comes along and changes the very corners of your foundation. I think that's called perspective. I've begun to see the things that are most important to me so much more clearly over the last few months. Houses, Jeeps, possessions, those come and go. The important things tho are much more deep. Family. Relationships. People really. Even so a person only has so much control. Try holding sand as the waves crash over you at the beach. No matter how tightly you squeeze the water still has the power to erode it away. I've decided to hold on to what matters most, let the sea take what it must, and smile even if life takes a big one on me for the rest of my life.