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When life throws us curve balls, it comes with no warnings
Yes life is
hard, not just yours. Everyone has at
sometime or the other been brought to their knees in pain, anguish, despair or
fear. If you’ve lived long enough you are sure to have had some sort of “down
time”. At the time it may have seemed
like a dark cloud hovering over you as if it would never lift, but it did and
you are still here reading this post.
When life throws
us curve balls, it comes with no warnings or instructions on how to deal with
it. We are left to fumble our way
through difficult, unexplored situations with little or no skills on how to
deal with all “the stuff” that is thrown our way.
A few years ago
the highest cause of suicide was lost love, but today it’s debt. Life is forever
changing, nothing remains the same. If
yesterday, you were unhappy, then who’s to say you can’t be wildly blissful
today. If yesterday you were jobless,
who’s to say today you can’t receive a fantastic job offer. If yesterday you
were hurting because you thought you lost the love of your life, who’s to say
you can’t find your soulmate today. As
cliché as this may sound, after every storm there is a rainbow.
If, as you read
this, you are going through a difficult time financially, a divorce, or your
life as you know it is not going the way you would like it to, then take it
from me, someone who had the misfortune to go through all of these disasters
simultaneously, you are not alone, and this too will pass. It’s not unusual to think that God is unfair
or he has something against us being happy, I had those thoughts a few times
and I’m sure I’m not alone. But when you
are mature enough and have seen some of the problems that people face, you
cannot help but feel grateful for your problems too. This may sound obscure to some, but in
comparison to terminal cancer and being jobless or homeless, my problems seemed
insignificant.
I obviously
still felt weighed down by my problems, except now I felt a lot luckier than
most. I believe this is what got me
through those difficult days, knowing that there are people out there that
still have the courage to face a new day without knowing where their next meal
will come from or if this will be their last day. If they could face such unsurmountable
circumstances with grace then so could I.
During my most
difficult days I was reminded of this quote “What is worse than losing
everything, it is losing the faith that
we can gain everything back.” In those
words lie the secret of overcoming any difficult situation. Have faith that tomorrow, or next week or
maybe next year things will look better, but never give up or lose that
faith. Your tears will be replaced by
smiles, your lack by abundance and your pain by love.
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