No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.