The Unexpected: The Worst

Sometimes things come our way that we may never understand.
We wake up every morning and don't think about what could happen, good or bad.
We don't expect what happens.
It sucks. 
Because what we do expect is our dreams to come true.
Our true love to come riding to our rescue.
We expect the very best in life.
But what I've come to realize is that sometimes,
we have to expect the worst.
Because when we expect the worst, it can only go up from there.
Sometimes life takes you down so hard, the only thing you can expect is the worst.
But, wait.
Why would we want to expect the worst, when we could expect the very best?
What a lot of us won't admit, is that life,
really, truly, sucks.
We fight with our friends.
We lose the ones we love.
Our dreams become only that. Dreams.
But what we get out of that, is the worst.
The bottom.
Emptiness.
So, what do we do with the unexpected in life?
The car accidents.
Flunking a final at school.
Making mistakes we promised we never would.
I'm not an expert, but I have a mom who is.
The worst is sometimes the best place we can be.
The worst is what motivates us.
It drives us.
Because we don't want to be at the bottom anymore.
We want our dream, and we want it to become a reality.
So we take the worst,
and we make it our best.
And by best, I don't mean perfection.
I mean we give it our best.
We give it our all.
We take the pain from our car accident and let it motivate us to become the best we can with pain.
"What doesn't kill us, only makes us stronger."
And tonight, I can attest to that.
Because when my life seemed to be at its best,
it took a turn for the worst.
And at my worst,
I've found the bottom of my heart.
And at the bottom of my heart is the unexpected that doesn't matter.
Because if we always expect the unexpected,
we'll never be our best.