your life only gets better when you get better.

perhaps each day is test. a chance to see if you repeat the problems, or work on the solutions you learned yesterday. what if its about a better you while atrophy is working against you, to beat yourself of yesterday. you can get a bit further from the line in the sand you were at, or you can fall a bit, each step foreword is a better you. it works both ways as each mistake, each miscalculation is a worse you. only you have to live with the outcome. a black eye or a feather in the cap. and todays actions will define tomorrows placement.

we spend our lives learning lessons or falling on our faces. studying for test, practicing for something, building our resumes, padding our bank accounts, chasing projects, people, knowledge a better body or better surroundings. not always accomplished, we retreat a bit along the way. we forget, fail, fall and miss the moment, the month, the year and watch tv, give up, devolve and destroy the progress. the line moves both ways, and on many metrics. your health, your finances, family, friends, factors that form your foundation of joy or pain.

so we grow, we shrink and we move back and forth in an endless strive to a better self. a better vessel to spend time in, to be with. we are our own hell or heaven, depending on the season and progress or product of what life had done to us. in the end it will all shut down, we will leave this place and perhaps start again, or enter into the long sleep. either way, a day is here. the gun went off when your eyes opened. it could be everything or nothing, you could end it with a better body, one less friend, a new virus or a new skill. each one your own, yours to smile or shy away from, yours to spend the next day and the rest of your life with. go make it a tad better.