Alex In Wonderland

A lot of this is projection, you know.

Communication.

People say sheet to you they should be heeding.

It's got little to do with you, most of the time.

It's got more to do with the speaker.

And so I say this today to you.

There was some Navy Seal or something that wrote a book called No Easy Day.

And I really liked the title.

In a way that guys like tough titles.

Or implied ones.

And of course for a lot of us, there are easy days.

A lot of them.

And we tend to take them for granted.

But I've had a streak of hard days.

Not like Navy Seal hunting #1 target hard.

But hard for me.

Like "Is this going to be my life from here on?"

And while the answer sometimes is in fact yes.

A lot of times it's temporary.

The suck is temporary.

You just have to get through it.

Even though it feels like it's not going away.

Sometimes, hardest days feel permanent.

But I want you to believe it's not.

That it's going to get better.

You just have to get through the worst of it.

Believe it or not, it's made me a better person.

Or at least a more appreciative person.

If you have your health, you truly do have everything.

I wouldn't trade perfect health for my overall life as it is right now (does that make sense?), but I'd trade a lot for it.

You know that idea that the body completely regenerates new cells every six months?

That every six months, you're a new person?

Well, turns out that's not necessarily true.

Billions of cells renew every single day.

About 4 million cells every single second.

330 billion cells replaced every single day.

My wife's grandfather had this line that I just loved.

I'm in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in.

I think that now.

I hope to from here on out.

And if you're going through the opposite of an easy day right now.

I just have this to say.

Do whatever it takes to get through it.

Second by second.

Nanometer by nanometer.

My life hasn't been "normal" for ages.

And certainly not for the last half decade or so.

Good days seems so fleeting.

And hard days can seem so permanent.

But they're not.

Or at least they haven't been.

It's easier to say all this since I'm able to type.

But this is a game of willpower.

I didn't want this fight.

But sometimes, fights find me.

So here we go.

Another round.

In the rabbit hole.

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