This too shall pass...

"If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy."

Too true that "this too shall pass". How fleeting anything, everything, is. "Good" news and "bad" news... always so intense and immediate, then time passes and life goes on. Run down the hill, its easy, run up the hill, its hard, but then you run down the hill again. Get the job you want, your co-worker, part of why you want the job is laid off, stress for a week.. go ahead with the job. Some little things like work, running, etc... so small compared to the real important things in life... which is life.

Little brother may have cancer, have to remove his testicle to find out... wtf? There is much hope for my brother... cancer doesn't appear to have spread, we'll know in a week what the next steps are and his prognosis is very very good. Father-in-law fights off colon cancer and it comes back into his lungs but maybe there's hope for him.

Of course, health is potentially fleeting too... from hard experience I've learned. I don't assume good health anymore. I have gratitude for being able to run, or swim, or bike... just to feel the feeling of manual motion.

This is a rambling note... things have been very upheaved for me... but, because of my family's struggles with the really important things... I'm learning to let the smaller upheavals go. slowly.