Life: A Test

What is life? What is our purpose here on this mortal earth? Sometimes it seems that our purpose is to live and to learn! They say that everything happens for a reason! Whoever "they" are. Everything happens for a reason. Or so it seems. Why do bad things happen to good people? They happen to teach us just how valuable our time here on earth really is. Just how short our time on this earth can be if we are not careful! That is why we must live every day to the fullest! We must live every day on earth as if it were going to be our last! Never be afraid to let those who are close to you know how you feel! Never be afraid to tell someone that you love them. Because you never know when there isn't going to be another chance! You never know when your time is up!

Sometimes I find myself questioning this world, this life, the reasoning behind things and why things happen! It seems that everytime something goes right in my life every time I turn around three more things go horribly wrong! Why is this? Is it a test from God? A test to see how much we can take? A test to learn from past mistakes? Why is it that things happen at the most inconvenient or ironic times? It is a test of strength! A test to see if we have learned our lesson or if we will continue to walk down the path of disaster! Why is it that we spend our entire lives learning lessons and then by the time we feel that we have learned them our lives are taken away?

Isn't it ironic? The way things work, the way things happen!? Everything bad happens for a reason! It happens for a reason to get us somewhere better in life and to teach us a lesson! It is up to us whether we choose to listen or to continue on in the world blind and deaf to these wake up signs! Sometimes fate can be so tempting! Which way do you turn? The heart may cry one thing while your mind cries out another! Logic and reasoning escape you in these moments because all you can think about is what you want! Sometimes we must forget about what we want and remember what we deserve! Sometimes we must ignore what we want and remember where certain things got us in the past! What trouble they may have caused, what pain we may have suffered as a consequence to following through the first time! We must learn to walk away, we must learn when to say no to certain things!

Nobody said that this life would be easy, but if we follow through, hopefully someday when we leave this mortal earth we will find that it was worth it and we can finally be at peace!?