Life intruding on life is life

Life intruding on life is life.

The things that distract you.

That demand your attention.

Keep you up at night.

The things you never chose.

That you can’t control.

You don’t want.

The unplanned.

The inconvenient.

The heart-breaking.

We say: it wasn’t supposed to happen like this.

We say: it’s not fair.

We say: Why me?

But the obstacle is the way.

It will be, whether we like it or not.

Our only responsibility is our 'response-ability':

Our capacity to choose not what happens

but how we respond.

Life intruding on life is life.

All we can do is live it.

Not as we thought it would be.

Or as it was supposed to be.

But as it is.