Life is pain, life is bitter, life is harsh...but life is also joy, happiness and love...that is what makes it...well life. I truly believe that life is a balance, the true personification if you will of Ying and Yang...not to belittle your experience, I am sure it was a hard blow, but I believe that an equally good experience (or on ramp to a better road to borrow from your metaphor) is headed your way. Take what you can from whatever happened and move on, being a better person from learning from your experience, no matter how painful it is, anyway by the look of things many people are looking out for you, so feel blessed, you are truly loved

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"And as we all play parts of tomorrow, some ways will work and other ways we'll play. And I know we can't all stay here forever, so I'll write, my words on the face of today...and then they'll paint it" - Shannon Hoon