Life is strange.  Really, right now, that is a nice way for me to put it. It throws us for loop holes that we can't predict, turns our world up side down, and in one instant everything can change.  Mostly, it seems, it is out of our control.  Whether it be good or bad, this strangeness leaves me with questions that will never be answered for me.  They are universal questions that everyone asks at some point in their life, I imagine.    Questions of good and evil, of human kindness, the human spirit, the footprints that we live in life, obstacles, tragedies, etc.  I'm not pretending to be a scholarly figure, but as each day goes on in my life, I am faced with more and more situations that truly make me sit back and think "why".  

Why will never be answered.   It is a question that shouldn't be asked.  There is no reason for the why, as for the reason why tragedies affect our lives.   I can sit here all night and run around in my head looking for reasons, but they will never be answered. It's like an endless space that can't be filled.  A void that will always remain.

When I find myself at this point in my life where I am feeling beat down from all of the strangeness in life, I am reminded of one of my favorite songs from John Butler Trio.

As strange as it may be, life isn't always what it seems.  Sometimes good presents come in bad wrapping.

So I am hoping as I continue on in this journey called life, that most of the bad wrapping is just a disguise.  That behind the wrapping is a present that somehow enriches my life and those around me.  It's a struggle I will always have in life.  Finding the good in bad things that happen .  Finding the joy in grief.  Finding the strength in sorrow.  It seems that these things should never go hand in hand, but ultimately they have to to carry on.  So I hope that when I am faced with points in my life of strangeness that I just keep unwrapping it all.  And hopefully, just hopefully, I will see some small point, and inkling of hope, a small ray of light to it all.

Here's to unwrapping the beauty behind all the ugly.