SNAP OUT OF IT!!!

I’ll be honest. When I have a much younger client walk into my office, pull off their shoe and show me their barely swollen big toe which “really, really hurts,” I want to roll my eyes, But I don’t. Why? Because pain that appears minute to me is very real to them. Truth is, my own big toe is double the size, makes walking often painful and demands I buy a big-ass shoe just to compensate. The difference? I have a very high tolerance for pain. They don’t. Life’s not fair.

Or is it? Recently, I met a jerk loaded with money who has no common sense, no kindness, no peace and no ‘unpurchased’ friends. Does living in a 7-million-dollar house make up for that? Don’t think so. I also met an office cleaner from China who makes minimum wage and is as happy as the day is long. None of us get a fair shake. We didn’t ask to be here. Yet here we are. That’s the real secret of life: To take what you get and run with it.

All of which brings me to the moth above. He put SO much energy into his circles but after all his various gyrations, he ended up pretty much where he started. Aren’t we all like this? Don’t we spin our wheels, wheel and deal, give our spiels and simply get nowhere? (Sidenote: Did you know the vast majority of people in the world when walking, tend to move counter-clockwise? Just like the moth! Who dreams up these studies?)

Yesterday, I spent an hour at the gym. I walked, climbed, did the bench press, bicep curls, back strengthening, leg press and the graviton machine. I even did a mile on the elliptical which kinda freaks me out. I feel like an octopus trying to keep track of all my limbs going in different directions. However, on my way out of the gym, I struggled to get the damn door open! 

Why do I wake up every day excited about what might happen even if nothing does? Why do some people wake up and wanna go right back to sleep? Genetics? Circumstance? Orneriness? Look, if you think life is unfair and you need a Kardashian butt to be happy. If you find yourself circling the drain and getting nowhere, click on this moment from Moonstruck and SNAP OUT OF IT!