If there is one lesson I keep learning and relearning over and over again, it is that life is--by it's very nature--a complex thing. You will hear all about it from many different people, and everything you hear will begin to sound cliche after a while, so I do not expect what you're about to read to be any different upon first glance. But the thing about cliches is that they are often formed because they are real and recurring.

The reality is that life is not fair. Bad things will happen to you, often in very rapid succession. Regardless of what people might say or think, you cannot change that. Life will do what it wants.

So rather than worry about what life is going to throw at you, focus your energy and attention on what you are going to do about it. You may not control what life does to you, but you can decide how to handle it, and that is what really matters.