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In order to get to the other side of hell, we must keep walking.

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I am only me. And that’s the brilliant part of it. Because this isn’t “it” for me. This is actually a time of my life I will one day miss.

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Cancer isn’t as foreign as it used to be. Another family friend quietly had thyroid cancer treated. A colleague of mine is currently undergoing cancer treatment. An old childhood friend went through it. A former coworker of mine had it as a child. Is there anyone out there who is safe from it anymore?

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We wake up and spend all of our time in our heads, and when you’re in between jobs or find yourself with an excess of spare time, it’s easy to fall into the steel trap of your mind and start inventing problems.

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The thing no one tells you about healing is that saying “it’s over” is relatively painless compared to what comes after. It’s not the giving up that stings, it’s wondering what to do with the life you built around his. And that hurts like hell.

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Just because someone fails to see your value doesn’t decrease your worth. Remember that.

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Here are their American counterparts, but unlike the Dutch video, their wives — who’ve had children — are right there along with them.

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No one had ever seen the darkness approaching and instead of leaving, just opened an umbrella and got ready for the downpour.