Life is full of hardships. It’s so easy to fall into the constant internal battle of what could have, should have or would have been if we had only made different choices. Why do we do this to ourselves? We can’t change the past. It’s impossible. Why do we focus on the mistakes? Yes, mistakes help us learn. They contribute to who we become. But we can’t continue to punish ourselves because of hindsight. After all, hindsight is always 20/20. It seems that, for so many, the past sometimes paralyzes the future. We become incapable of looking ahead. We live day-to-day with an inability to plan ahead. I struggle with this mentality. Maybe it’s the eternal optimist in me, or the extremely faithful believer who can’t imagine that God’s plan is for me to abandon hope for a future, but I can’t allow myself to only live for today. We need hopes for a future. I need to believe the best is always yet to come. I’m not discounting that today can’t be amazing. I just think blessings are the hidden gems that are revealed from hardship. I can constantly fly the plane around and look for a better destination, or I can seek to land the plane. I choose an eventual landing. I am taking every step I can to land my plane. I’m figuring out the financial hardship that came from divorce. I’m figuring out relationships with my kids that are different from what I ever could have imagined would be our lives today. I’m figuring out how to create opportunity through furthering my education. None of this is easy. It’s all hard. It’s a relative kind of hard. I’m figuring out how to navigate dating in a world where everyone thinks we should all just “know” how things are going to settle. We can’t possibly have life figured out. Life is always evolving. Change is inevitable. We have to be willing to pivot. We have to be willing to take risks. We have to be willing to know that blessings are just waiting to be delivered. I’m game. I want to land the plane. Do you?