more dramatic prose...:-)

This day has wrested from her her last vestiges of patience and perseverance.  Frustration wells up inside and threatens to show up as a mood.  And she had willed herself not to let it come to this.  She had willed herself and it had worked.  Until today.  Realization dawned clear as the light of day.  Many times in life, you put way, way more into something than you get out of it.  And so it was with this.  And with that realization, there also dawned a sense of clarity that was so sharp, so poignant, so real that it almost made her smile, even with a wrenching of her heart.  Suddenly, she knew what to do.  Suddenly she knew how to make sense of it all.  Maybe this was how it was supposed to be, all, all along.