Straightening Things Out by Iron-y

I am continuously amazed by the paradoxical nature of life. Does anyone else feel like the more effort you put into the things you think are important, the further away from the goal you are? And then, you resign yourself to never attaining that goal, only to find that things begin to pick up for you?

It is maddening sometimes to try and determine if the change of wind is a figment of your imagination, or an objective reality...