Just Breathe

     There are somethings people learn to count on. The sun will always rise in the morning and set again in the evening (unless your in the arctic, but lets not go there). We learn to expect that someone loves us, and someone probably doesn't. A biker learns to suspect that everyone is out to get them. In Texas, people learn  to dance in the rain when it comes (or at least they should!). But sometimes things change.

     Man had become accustomed to living on the earths surface. Living on the ground. Then the Right Brothers invented the plane. A new world was opened up to us. We had the sky to roam. Then we found ourselves on the moon! We were so far from just being on the ground. We found it hard to imagine never leaving the earth. But we did.

     Things like this happen everyday. Imagine when someone first learns they are going to be a parent. Oh imagine the knowledge of a death in your family. Imagine the terror in your heart when you yourself have something wrong. When you can't eat without throwing it up again. When you can't stand without falling. Or when you can't speak without choking. Imagine not being able to bring in air.

     Breathing, another of those things we take for granted. We do it everyday without thinking. It would be like suddenly not being able to feel. Or like not remembering anything from your entire life. Breathing is life, it is us. It just *is*. But in all of our lives, at some point, we either can't breathe or it takes our whole being just to suck in a single breath. It is a terrifying moment when one can't get air to power them to think of how to fix the problem at hand.

     Unless it is our dying hour, we find something to pull us through. We normally can look at something ahead of us and say 'no, i will breathe. And I will get there.' Something keeps us all going. We sometimes don't even know it. But something is there pulling us forward. For some people it could be over half a lifetime before they find a time like this where they can't find the air they need. Other's experience this almost daily.

     We must never forget the little things. We must be grateful for everything we have and can do. If the sun comes up in the morning, and if you wake to fresh air, you should be happy. You can always find something to make you happy, something to keep you moving.