Today I Learned I have to roll with the punches. I’ve been searching for a place to stay near the Univeristy that I’ll be attending for months now. I’ve spent time, money, and energy scouring Craigslist and social media to find roommates. I’ve been running into the same pattern. I find a person who is looking for a roommate, we exchange information, and then usually they flake days later. It’s frustrating. It almost leads me to believe that their isn’t a place for me outside my mom’s house. But that’s bullshit. It’s difficult finding people who want to rent a room to me but that doesn’t mean those people are out there. The best thing I can do is roll with the punches. Even though it’s discouraging being flaked on at the last minute I can’t let it kill my spirit. I can’t take it personally. I just gotta understand that this is the nature of the game. Not only of trying to find a place to stay but of life. Sometimes you put your best foot forward and it doesn’t work out. Sometimes you walk the straight and narrow path and you end up behind. Sometimes you put everything you’ve got into the relationship and it still fails. That’s just how it is. But that’s okay. I’m strong enought to deal with the dissapointments. I’m smart enough to know that I can’t use inevitable dissapointments as an excuse to not go all in. It’s okay if it doesn’t work exactly as planned. The most significant thing that matters is that I roll with the punches. That even though I experience dissapointments I still continue to give everything I’ve got towards going we’re I want to go.