The Personal Assistant

by Kimberly Belle

“But that’s a load of crap, isn’t it? Because life is messy, and no one person is an island. We get fired, we get divorced, we get addicted, a loved one gets cancer and dies. Shitty things happen, and where’s the bright side then? A walk in the woods won’t bring you peace. Being kind won’t solve anxiety or grief. When someone is hurting, hitting them over the head with positivity doesn’t help. In fact, it does the opposite—it invalidates what that person is going through,

And maybe that’s the lesson here, that even in the midst of the messiest, scariest lives, there are moments of beauty, and you have to be relentless in snatching them up. In holding them up to the world as proof that, despite everything, you can still feel joy. Even if you’re not quite there yourself.