I won’t lie to you and tell you that your life will be smooth and steady — free of rough terrain. You’re not that fortunate. Neither is anyone else. Life itself is seven parts bitter and three parts sweet.
So if you’re in a valley right now, surrounded by darkness — you may cry out, you may rest, you may pause. But you absolutely cannot sink into that place and stay there. You must, you truly must, try to pull yourself back up.
Because you and I both know: this is far from the moment you put a period at the end of your story.