Learning from Those Times of Suffering
Problems or challenges appear in our lives from time to time. There are days when everything seems to be going wrong, and we proclaim with exasperation, “You’ll never prove to me that any good is coming out of this!” Yet we can look so objectively at the lives of others and see that it’s not the problem that can make or break you; it is what you make of it.
Do you make mountains out of molehills, or do you make molehills out of mountains? Do you look at your difficulties with appreciation or regret? Turning a handicap into a victory is the stuff from which heroes are made you’ve seen the movies, read the books, dreamed some of the same dreams - and you can do it, too, from one moment to the next, starting now.
It is time for you to stop suffering and struggling, to relax and peacefully accept a change, and turn your energy into making your problem situation into a winning one? If you feel that you are suffering, then write the answers to the following questions down for reference:
1. What useful purpose does my suffering and resistance to change serve?
2. Do I need it to grow stronger in some way?
3. Do I learn more, the harder I struggle and suffer?