Bleeding From The Face And Other Things That Are Bad For You

In my lifetime I have maybe gotten four nosebleeds, but today, I nearly doubled my all time record! Having bled from my face on three separate occasion today, I have learned one very important thing. I really don't like bleeding from my face. Granted, having dried blood stained on your face kind of makes you look like a bad ass.

It really isn't as affective when it is dripping out of your nose and staining your upper lip. As I do with most things that happen to me, I ended up comparing my nosebleeds to the nature of life.

Yes, I am going to go down that road. I will make unexplained nasal blood discharge a metaphor for everyday life.

Last summer, probably pretty darn close to a year ago, I was heading up north with my then girlfriend to go visit my Grandparents and to go camping. It is about a 3 hour drive north to get to my grandparents, but that wasn't a big deal, car rides were sometimes the best part. Everything was going great, until we stopped at a little dollar store about 40 minutes away. 

Nothing was wrong with the dollar store, but when we got back to the car and attempted to head on our way, something was very obviously wrong. Now I can't say I remember exactly what it was, but I remember we stopped the car and I did the obligatory man thing and had my girlfriend pop the hood so I could take a look.

I don't know much about cars at all, nothing more than the basics and I knew I wouldn't be able to actually do anything, but I poked around and pretended to know what I was doing while she called her dad. The entire situation was causing her a lot of stress, especially since it was her car. Me though, I just tried to stay calm and to keep her calm too, there wasn't much we could do, so he had to roll with it.

Roll with it ultimately became the motto of our entire trip and it was an amazing trip.

(I hope you took your kayaking skills with you overseas)

The car ended up being fine, as was probably made obvious by the trip being amazing, but the idea of rolling with it is what really sticks out. Lots of things didn't go perfect on that trip, storming while camping for example, but we rolled with it and it was great. 

If there is nothing you can do about a situation, i.e. bleeding from your nose, you can't stop it or change it, just do what you can to keep from making a mess and roll with it. Let it flow, in the case of nosebleeds, that is rather literal. No sense in fretting about all the little things you can't change or that don't go right, life is like that, just let it flow. Roll with it. No need to over think, it is what it is and just roll with it. 

I hate bleeding from my face, I truly do, but I will continue to just roll with it, because otherwise I am just complaining and nobody cares to hear that.