such is life
Such Is Life To write about your feelings is a gruesome thing. Not because the words are difficult to find, but because once they are written, they stop being thoughts and become evidence. They stare back at you. They ask questions you were hoping to avoid. They make you admit that you felt exactly what you felt. And yet, for the longest time, feelings have been the only thing I've wanted to write about. Funny how that works. "Such is life" is perhaps one of the loosest phrases we've ever created. It belongs everywhere and nowhere at once. A lottery winner can whisper it in gratitude. Someone standing at a funeral can sigh the very same words. A child discovering joy and an adult surviving heartbreak can both arrive at the exact same conclusion: Such is life. The phrase doesn't discriminate between fortune and tragedy. It doesn't ask whether your story deserves celebration or sympathy. It simply reminds you that life keeps unfolding, indifferent to your plans....
