Time

Sometimes, I wish I was a bit more ahead of the game.  It's pretty easy to look ahead into the future and think of things that, while perhaps you'll have them someday, you wish you had now.  Today, as I was thinking "I wish I were" and "I wish it'd be like," it dawned on me that perhaps, years from now, I would realize that this particular moment in life was short.  And special.

It's a lot easier to be grateful for things when you realize that, with time, everything changes.  Whatever it is you don't like about where you are now will be gone, but whatever it is you do like will be gone too. 

To be inconsolable and to have faith...

It seems like one of the hardest things in the world is to try to help a friend who is inconsolable.  Or also to be inconsolable, even with the help of a friend.  It's so nice to give advice that really helps and so nice to get advice that can somehow pull you out of whatever you're feeling.

Sometimes, when I'm inconsolable, I try to have faith.  I have a book that says you should triumph in God's gifts to you, even before he has given them, because you have faith that he will.