Gotta Know When To Hold Em' And When To Fold Em'

Posted to Facebook on March 12th, 2010.

I'd like start by quoting a friend of mine.

"Sometimes... sometimes I find problems. Other times... other times problems find me."

Though that quote was not the inspiration for this comic, I now realize it fits alongside quite well. This comic, like many others, was drawn in the tumultuous wake of heartbreak. It attempts to describe my feelings of helplessness cast in a more humorous light. I used to turn everything into a joke and take nothing seriously. I used to believe that the best way of dealing with an issue was to find the comedy in it. This comic was a sort of throwback to that behavior.

But maybe it's not such a bad idea. Every once in a while life will throw you a curveball, the kind that you're completely unprepared for. You're gonna strike out, and you're gonna strike out hard. It's something I feel a person must simply accept instead of struggle fruitlessly against. That's the lesson I learned then and have had to keep relearning since.

For a while I tried so hard to actively forget everything that was causing me pain, shut it out through sheer force of will. I was spinning my tires in an uphill battle on an icy slope; the factors of the situation were simply against me. It took a lot of sliding and lost ground to see that it simply wasn't worth the effort, I needed to just relax and wait this storm out.

I suppose that's the final word, which is to calm down and accept things as they are. While it may be on a clock, life is certainly not a race. Do things at your own pace and forget everyone else.