Zerky

My friend Josh wrote this incredible story about a house being on fire in which the main character is somehow in the middle of a disagreement with his girlfriend.

The girlfriend is breaking up with him because she wants to move on to bigger and brighter things and she feels as if he's holding her back.

He doesn't really care that much.

He's preoccupied with finding the owner of the house, one of his friends.

Think of it as like a college party.

Everyone's gone to this one little house off the coast and suddenly it is engulfed in flames.

I love this story because...

I feel as if a lot of our lives are a house fire in which we are just trying to put out the outside walls to make it okay enough for somebody to enter into our front door.

I think all of you have seen that meme of the dog that's sitting, everything is fine.

And the absolute chaos that ensues when you realize that your life is in shambles, it's actually more comforting than

than trying to lie to yourself over and over again that it's not.

Sometimes admitting is the first step, we hear that all the time, but what does it actually look like to tell yourself

Dude, my life sucks.

Dude, my life is in chronic pain.

I can't get up out of bed because I'm staring at the ceiling.

I can't even figure out what is the first thing I'm supposed to do when just everything around me is squeezing me like a hydraulic press.

I think the first thing you need to understand is that this is not something that will only happen once.

And you are not the first person in the world to experience this.

This house ablaze effect, it actually happens more than you think.

And it will happen to you over and over again in your life if you allow it to.