There are stretches in life when it feels like everything is working against you. Work falls apart. Stress never lets up. Bills pile higher than your patience. Your ex drags their feet signing legal papers, insurance plays games, your vehicle gets towed, parking turns into punishment — and you start to wonder if there’s a dark cloud following you everywhere you go.
People say, “Everyone has bad days,” but this isn’t a bad day — this is a full-blown breakdown of everything that used to make sense. It’s the kind of run where you start questioning everything: your luck, your choices, your faith in people. You reach a point where you don’t even want advice — you just want something, anything, to finally go right.
And then comes the grind — thousands of jobs, hundreds of applications, and not one callback. You’re trying to build something new, maybe even start a business that could change your life. Everyone loves the idea. They smile, they nod, they say, “That’s brilliant — I hope it takes off.” But when it comes time to back it, invest in it, or actually help, it’s always the same thing: talk, talk, and more talk. You realize people love the sound of success, but few are willing to lift a finger to build it.
It’s easy to start believing the universe has it out for you. But the truth is — this is the test. Not of luck, but of grit. The pressure you feel right now isn’t here to destroy you; it’s here to strip away the noise, to sharpen you into someone who doesn’t quit when things turn ugly.
So let yourself be angry. Let yourself feel tired. Then take one step anyway. It doesn’t matter how small it is — forward is forward. The storm might look endless, but it always breaks.
And when it does, you’ll look back and realize something powerful: the darkness didn’t defeat you — it forged you. Every unanswered email, every ignored application, every disappointment — it was all fuel. Because when everything is going wrong, that’s when you learn who you really are.