Reversal of fortune

So you've gone and turned your life upside down. Was it really worth that?

Well, here's the thing. It turns out that my life was upside down. I just didn't know it. I'd got used to it being upside down. But turning it upside down actually put it right side up.

But you've upset people.

Let's just say that some people are upset.

They were used to you the other way 'round.

I know, but it was my life that was upside down. Once I realized that, I couldn't continue to live that way. I had to turn it right side up. Who wants to live upside down?

It didn't look upside down to anyone else.

That's probably true. When I had hints that my life might be upside down, I kept them to myself. And I adapted well to living an upside down life.

OK, let's concede that your life was upside down. You lived all those years like that. Couldn't you have just kept going that way?

My life was OK, sort of, when I didn't know for sure that it was upside down. But once I knew, and I saw what my life could be if it were right side up, then upside down was no longer an option.

Maybe those who are born with their lives right side up take it for granted. They really have no way of knowing how horrible it is to have an upside down life. But when you're born with your life upside down, you'll never take being right side up for granted.