Being Happy. Being Sad. Being Well.

Your emotions work on a pendulum. Say that there is a pendulum attached to the back of a long picture frame. Outside the frame on both sides there is a bumper; usually, it ticks back and forth without going inside the frame; with a natural tick to it. However, once in a while, something jerks the pendulum, and it goes flying all the way over to the outside bumper. Slamming into the bumper, it immediately get pushed all the way over to the other side.This repeats over and over again until, gradually, the normal tick of things takes back over; the pendulum once again swings at a natural tick. Sometimes the bumpers break; sometimes they hog the pendulum to one side or the other, sometimes the pendulum gets stuck on one end, or maybe in the middle.Some days are good. Some days are bad. Sometimes, life is unbearable. Other times, you can do anything.And you go back and forth between nothing and everything. Stars and the moon and the sky. Nailed to the ground with the flood gates opening soon. And so you cope. You do your best. You try so hard. And once in a long while, you're just walking. Ticking back into the rhythm that is real. Its only once in a long while, but it happens. And eventually, it'll start happening longer, and more often. It just takes a while to get there. But you'll get there.