Long ends, short ends
People doing their best might still get the short end of the stick. That's the harsh reality of life. No fundamental sets of laws ensure that good will come back to you if you do good. You do not have any control over what happens to you, the only thing you can influence is how you react to the things that happen to you. Most of us do not come to this realisation until something big happens to us, like losing someone or seeing someone at their final stages in life. On a day-to-day basis, we live as if we had all the time in the world. The truth is, we don't. Our individual existence is just so insignificant on the grand scale of things. I sometimes find myself getting caught up in the smallest issues that do not matter, worrying out things that do not matter, too stuck in my head to live life. Life happens now and I will never ever get back these moments. Time is precious, and overthinking every single step is not healthy but at the same time, making sudden decisions with no p...