makes you think

I have heard people say several times - "sometimes life just gets in the way" I never really understood it & honestly never really cared enough to try. I'm sure we've all heard expressions about - looking down the rabbit whole - or - how deep in the rabbit goes - when people are dealing with situation that they may not like the outcome.

Now that my life has started spirally down "the rabbit hole" I now get how "sometimes life gets in the way". Even more scary than that realization is realizing how often I've gotten in the way of life, how my stupid decisions have all had a part in what's going on.

As you start to spiral you think things like "I can get this under control" even as it starts to become uncontrolable. You catch your self thinking "It's not that bad" even as that foundation that you've built everything off of starts to collapse. I hate to use this, but it fits... It's like the Titanic and as it was sinking some people didn't want to acknowledge what was going on as if not acknowledging it would make it go away. Most people hear accounts of what happen or watch the movie and think "how could they act like that" or "what were they thinking" when in actuality they are doing similiar things in their own life. You don't agree?? try this..

Now that our economy absolutely stinks do you find yourself going back and questioning decisions that you may have made that are now financially impacting you?
If the economy didn't tank would you be questioning it?
example you purchase a house that you could barely aford prior to the crash. Was that smart? sorry to break it to you.. but NO, did the crashing economy make that a bad decision, not really.
What made that a bad decision was stretching yourself thin when you didn't have to - welcome to the rabbit hole.

I hard to tell you this, but if you're down here no one is going to help you out. You have to look at yourself and make the changes needed to fix your own situation. Stop looking around and blaming everyone else for your situation.

I think you'll be surprised at who else is down here.