We spend most of our waking moments with this question in our conscience...

"where am I going? What am I doing? Where am I headed? How will I get there?"

...without ever spending more than five minutes looking at where we came from and marveling at the loves, selfishness, laughs, sacrifice, selflessness, heartache and break, generosity, and wishful thinking that actually got us to where we each stand today.

Don't you think it odd that we smile fondly, warmly, reflectively of those moments in life that left us with the most joy and contentment.

While we try to block from memory the actual feelings of pain we endure, such as the loss of  love at the END of those feelings of joy and contentment.  Even though during that "episode" of pain we thought it would never ever end? 

Not once realizing it was the existence of both in our lives that pushed us and redefined our character.

Hell.  It's why at this very moment,

your heart, beat.