Nobody is Immune to Life.

Life has a way of bringing you to your knees
You try and try to stand up tall to puff yourself up and take control of the wheel
But life eventually comes to bring you back to reality
Life happens and you can do nothing about it.
Life happens to you no matter who you are.
Nobody is immune to the symptoms of this chaos
Everyone is subject to it, yet we all continue to fight for control of it.
Those with faith and with out it alike
Yet no matter what you believe or do not believe doesn't change reality.
Life happens to everyone, life is no respecter of persons
And no one has or will ever gain control of it.
What then what do we do how do we cope with the uncertainty of life?
A thought that I have is this.
Think of life like surfing. Surfers in no way think that they can tame the ocean.
But in no way do they just lie around on there boards expecting to catch a wave just lying there. They study and learn and watch for warning signs and adjust there efforts according to what they've learned in there experiences both failures and successes. But the ocean is in control they are not they ocean decides when the great rides are going to come and the ocean decides when it's going to swallow up and bring destruction. But in that respect and understanding the surfer that risks at the right time may experience the greatest rides of it's life but the ones who never risk who never go balls out to catch the waves will just be bobbing up and down out in the ocean that is not surfing. The ride and the wipeout is what defines surfing you can't surf with out the two they go hand in hand. So life though it is out of our control victory and defeat, life and death, pain and happiness are all apart of what makes up life and it does not exist with out them. So instead of trying to control life learn from it and just be committed to ride the waves that come and learn from the experiences of failure and success, life and death, victory and defeat and adjust yourself for the next set that comes rolling in.