sometimes life takes these unexpected curves. like when you are driving down a road you dont know very well at night, and everything seems fine till all of a sudden there is a really sharp curve and you have to slow down real fast in order to make it around....

sometimes in those moments it feels like you will never make it around that corner, the bend will be just too much and you will go plummeting off into the woods. and your heart starts rushing, and you panic for a bit.

and then you realize that panicing never helps anything and maybe your car is more reliable than you previously thought. eventually, even if you have to stop for a while, after you regain control, sitting there, out of breath, scared at the prospect that you nearly met your end, you will continue on....

one because you feel like a fool sitting there in the road being scared.

and two because eventually a car will come up behind you and make you move whether you are ready or not.

but if you think about it, in the end those curves make us all the better. we may drive a little slower, and with more caution than before, but we learn....

and eventually when we can trust ourselves again we can learn to take those curves a little faster, till finally you are moving along at a normal speed again.

where will this road take us?