When Life Gets Rough by Edie Holdgrafer

When life gets rough, it's hard to say
Put on a happy face
Some time in life you have to know
You can't go that extra mile
No matter how much you really want
To help loved ones in life
You have to accept that you may not
Be able to cure their strife
Life deals out so many problems
It makes one rage with hate
But somehow, every single day
We go on, accepting our fate

I guess what kept me going was not so much the excitement of life, for it really was not very good in that respect, but the responsibilities to others in my life. I did accept that as a reason to keep going. I did have a lot of heartaches with broken marriages and not being in the lives of some of the children I brought into the world. I always chalked it up to fate and it was meant to be, etc. and always finding excuses for having to keep going. Many times along my road of life, I wanted to crash and burn, and this is where faith in something unexplainable and beyond us keeps us plugging along, no matter how miserable we are in life. Then when I would be feeling at my lowest ebb, behold, I would see someone who had an ultimate trauma that even I had not suffered through; like a blind child trying to learn to walk, or a deaf child that would never hear sweet music or the voices of loved ones. I would see some poor animal in nature suffering or run over by a car or shot by a hunter, or some other of the millions of bad things we see on television or news, and do not relate them to us. It is very true that to KNOW is to live through it. How can one know how a blind person feels, if they are not blind--or how a deaf person feels, learns, and thinks unless we are deaf, or live with someone we know personally that has gone through it?

I had relatives that killed themselves and others who died young, and one learns to accept that as a part of normalcy in our daily strife to live life to the fullest, hoping fate deals us out some good in with it all.

Personally, I feel that we live over and over in different life forms. We all know there is a beginning and an end to everything--and an opposite to everything. So, please know that I am proud to have been a part of your lives. I am grateful for EVERYTHING that happened along the way, because of the lessons it gave me for the "unknown" that is yet to come beyond this life. I accept it as my FATE IN LIFE and I hope that YOU DO TOO!!!

Your Loving Mother