I woke up this morning and realized that life is life. Life is a living, colorful, joyful, hurtful, painful, etc...kind of  thing.  Life makes people happy, sad, mad, and all the emotions that can run through a person....that is LIFE. It is made up of all the elements that we see, hear, smell and taste and touch...that is LIFE. Does "life" change or do we change "life"??? Actually, WE all change life, we attempt to change life so that it better suits ourselves, to make situations and issues better for others and things of that sort.  Why? We're attempting to change things that one perfect person created way way before our time. So, in the attempts to try to change things that once was very perfect we have to ask ourselves if we are sinful in doing so or is that just LIFE.  You know I hear people say, "oh she/he has the perfect life". No, they don't...there is no such thing as a perfect life because at some point and time everyone is going to make mistakes, hurt someone, lose someone, say things they don't mean, do things they are going to regret and blah blah blah. Those are not characteristics of a PERFECT LIFE!  I currently have and had friends that dwell on the negative...BOY that is real inspiring but I guess that is life. You know I really don't get  why people dwell on the past for days and nights over the same thing especially when it is the past and is no longer an issue. LET IT GO...we have the ability to change life for the good or the bad, we've been doing it for years. It's your life and how are you going to live it....tunneled up deep inside a dark, cold, batty cave or under blue skies and green meadows??? Hey man it's your life and you have the capability of living it how you want to...You choose how you want to live it; bottled up in self pity hoping someone will catch you before you fall or standing on your on two feet knowing that life is a whole lot worse for someone else??? Why am I saying all this now....because sadly as it is I really just discovered what life was all about and what it was really really made of. Life is not what someone else makes of it for you but how you choose to make your own life. Yes, there will always be hurdles that you trip over and tight ropes that you lose your footing on but IT IS your inner strength to figure out how to get back up and walk again.  I have endured a lot since I was old enough to walk to current day. I had a very abusive father, started living and supporting myself directly after high school, lost the love of my life, high school sweetheart and unborn child due to a automobile accident, lost a good friend in a car accident, battled the thought of losing my mother to cancer, lost my 7 day old son due to a defective heart, was wrote out of the life of certain someones, lost my best friend in a hunting accident right before my eyes, battled alcohol abuse and lived in rehab for a period of time and got a divorce. But the moral of the story......I can still get up and walk through life and know what the true meaning of life really is and how to manage the hurdles and tight ropes that trip you up.