There are times when life with my challenges just stinks. The baggage of that my challenges brings. The life that makes things harder than they want to bring. The nights with insufficient sleep can feel terrible. Feeling the way, we do can seem like one of the worst things that can happen at times. It can seem like life is unfair because of the baggage that we carry that is our challenges. But we have to press on no matter how much it hurts.

Through this experience, and from my life with my family, I have learned something important. We have to accept the hand we are given. There is nothing that we can do about it. We must endure life’s challenging moments. We do this even with the baggage it brings along the way. It can seem unfair for one reason or another, but it is what it is. We can’t just wave a wand and make it go away. We have to live with the baggage we are given. It seems unfair or hurtful, but we must accept it.

I have often felt that life has been unfair to me in the past year. This is because of what has happened to me and to others in my family. It has had me have to reinvent the wheel of how I exist. It can seem unfair for one reason or another. I do not have the opportunity to do the things that I once did. Being autistic or having other challenges sometimes puts me at a deficit. Yet, I also look at the ways that I can be a blessing to others in other regards.

Life seems to be unfair at times. There are times when I want to be upset and throw in the towel at things, but I just can’t. I have to move along with life no matter what. It can hurt sometimes but it hurts because things don’t happen in me as they do in others. I am not jealous. I am just hurt sometimes because of the things I can’t do. This is due to how life is now. I know others would change their situation just as I would want to change mine. It affects them in certain ways. That is their battle to fight, just as it is for me to fight mine.

Life is going to be what it is. We can’t change what has been handed to us. We have to deal with the hand that has been given to us. Without a doubt there are times when we want things to be better for us. There are nights when we are up, wishing things didn’t happen because of the baggage we carry. Yet, there are also times to be grateful for what we have in our lives. We must be patient with what we have and give ourselves grace when things are less than perfect. It also takes being kind to us too in the same process no matter how hard that can be.

The reality is that we have to push on no matter what.