For seriously. I’m tired of lemons. If you really want to give me something, give me presents and college degrees instead. I would appreciate them SO much more.

But that’s not how life works. Life doesn’t just GIVE you stuff like money or college degrees. Life gives you stuff like bills, and homework, and two dead car batteries, or a surprise emergency vet bills. Most of us have to work ridiculously hard for decent money, a college degree, or even time with loved ones.

And while I was wallowing in an overflowing pool of self pity earlier, I remembered a saying I used to HATE hearing my Dad say when I was young: Life’s not fair, so get over it. It used to drive me up the bloody wall, and it was like hearing finger nails on a chalkboard for me. But today I realised, he’s absolutely right.

Yeah, it’s not fair that I don’t get to see AJ, and we’re tight on money, and I haven’t been on a nice dinner date with him in AGES.

But you know what else isn’t fair? The fact that we can afford our own apartment, and pay our own bills, while there are those who cant.

It’s not fair that I found the love of my life so young, and am no longer lonely, when I know people who are alone and miserable.

It’s unfair that my family is healthy and still complete, while others mourn the loss of multiple loved ones.

It’s not fair that when Jill’s (my baby girl doggy) needed emergency surgery in order to survive, I was miraculously able to afford it, with the help of my AMAZING friend at the vet’s office, who was able to take $500 off of the bill, split up the bill into an unheard of 13 payments, so that I didn’t have to put my Jilly-bean down.

So yes, life is always unfair. But I’m just gonna suck it up, and be grateful for unfair blessings I do get to enjoy in my life. The way real grown ups should.

PS: Lemons are here.

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