Life or voo doo?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Does that sound familiar? Although we hear that line in movies, it rings true in all our lives.  I think my therapist is the only person that believes me when I tell him what happens to me on the daily. People in the past have told me: "It's just life Kara", "You're doing something wrong", " What is it now? You expect me to believe that?" "Get over it Kara, it's all in your head." "You are creating this because we create our own reality." "You're drama! And I don't do drama!" Sounds harsh, right?
I will say this, if I'm creating what goes down on the daily....I AM one fu$#ed up reality show hostess! Falling down my brick stairs taking boxes to a friend, brand new lawn mower breaking, my year old car needing $1088.00 worth in repairs to make it safe to drive again(after already replacing this 2011 car's alternator & battery less than 6 months ago), my computer crashing, phone breaking, court papers served, hitch hiking, stranded to sleeping in my car, sprained ankle, bicycle accident tearing up my other leg, and ALL that happening within the past week. For some reason I have constant adversity and legit reasons to justify a mental breakdown. If I leave an hour early to be on time, you betcha the whole closet is going to fall on my head, road construction happening on the route I take, and someone pulls out in front of me causing my coffee to decorate the whole front end of my car(true story, can't make this stuff up)! Is it really just my luck, or has someone created a Kara voodoo doll to torture my reality? I'm sure those with cancer, people in abusive situations, those living paycheck to paycheck feel the same way asking: 'will it ever get better?'  I may have spent the past six years living through a custody battle from hell, losing my best friend to cancer, dealing with childhood trauma(molestation), learned to walk away from verbal abuse, raise 4 children alone, been homeless, and God forbid I share more......yet I keep on keeping on! I wake up determined to be covered in joy! Not because someone told me to, yet because I CAN and I CHOOSE to. Don't get me wrong, the counselors I've been to  over the years, have told me "Most people would not be able to handle what you've lived through, they would have given up." So, instead of giving up, I have written a book, worked five jobs at one time, opened a yoga studio, created amazing memories with my children, help build a team of amazing people in Network Marketing, and fulfill my life long dream of visiting Africa. It hasn't been easy, yet I didn't do it alone. God has surrounded me with incredible people. Life is not guaranteed to be perfect or easy, we are only born with an opportunity to do our best no matter the mess we may have been thrusted into. Learning how to love through the mud and mire, unveiling gratitude instead of having an attitude, discovering that we can be the change and not the derranged. No matter what happens, understand that we all have battles to conquer. My challenge to you is to be positive by choosing victory through kindness, patience, love, gentleness, joy, peace, and realizing it starts with you. We have this incredible gift of intuition when we are born, knowing what we were born to do. Let's get back to being kids again, because when you're a kid and fall down, you get right back up.