Rainbows and Butterflies? I Think Not.

I just hung up the phone from being informed of my most expensive real world experience to date-new brakes.  Ouch!

I guess you do what you gotta do, right?!?

This experience fits so well with the topic I’d been wanting to blog about, so I’ll take this time while I’m sitting in Bagel Boy next to the Midas to jot down a few thoughts.

Yesterday while driving I had the radio cranked, maybe a little too loud to disguise the squeaking breaks, and a song I really like came on.  The reason I like this song is one particular line in the song that jolts me every time I listen.

“It’s not always rainbows and butterflies, it’s compromise that moves us along.”- She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5.

I love this.  It is so cut you to your heart, this is reality in your face, bam here it is, insightful.

Life isn’t always going to be one big ‘Happy Day’ sometimes the only thing we can do is find compromise to keep us moving forward, and sometimes that compromise is an expensive break job.

This last week at school was stressful.  Because of the current budget situations, not many people know where they stand when it comes to what they will be teaching next year-their might be a fruit basket upset.  Of course my initial thoughts were, ‘how is this going to affect me, oh and…this sucks!’  However, after I’ve thought about the situation more and more I think that the lyrics mentioned above seem very fitting.  I know that I would not want to be in the shoes of the people who have to make the decisions, their lives right now are definitely not rainbows and butterflies, they are trying to find compromise and that is not an easy job.

I think that the best way that I can approach this compromise, regardless of how it affects me, is to realize and embrace that life’s not meant to always be rainbows and butterflies.  We are challenged and tried in order that we grow and learn.  Without those experiences my life would be rainbows and butterflies but I wouldn’t know how to appreciate those rainbows and butterflies.