Helium

Muscle is created by lifting things

that are designed to weigh us down.

When your shoulders are heavy

stand up straight and call it exercise.

When your day is a museum of disappointments,

hanging from events that were outside of your control,

when you feel like your guardian

angel put in his two weeks notice two months ago

and just decided not to tell you,

when it seems like God

is just a babysitter that’s always on the phone,

when you get punched in the esophagus

by a fistful of life.

Remember,

every year

two million people die of dehydration.

So it doesn’t matter if

the glass is half full or half empty.

There’s water in the cup.

Drink it and stop complaining.

Most people have no idea

that tragedy and silence

often have the exact same address.