"It's Not Happening To You"

It’s not happening to you.
It’s happening for you.

And those hard happenings,
those are the moments where you’re sure
that this will be your breaking point.
It was the only thing that would make you move.

It had to be the extreme, because you ignored the subtleties.
The noise of settling muffled the whispers of alignment.

It’s happening for you.
The roughest rapids eventually run into calm waters.
It had to happen.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t be who you are now.
Stones don’t become rounded and smooth
by remaining stationary.

- R. Short