Who said the river flows smoothly? Seldom it does. When it rains, it goes into spate. On its way, there are thousands of rapids trying to break its flow and tear its body into pieces and then, there are deep falls that it is forced to jump. Yes, the river has a lot to tell about its journey, the ups and the downs. In spite of it all, it flows and reaches its destiny, of dissolving into the sea.
Life is also like that. Who said life is a bed of roses? At best it is a sinusoidal wave and at its worst, it is like a river in spate facing multiple rapids and forced to jump! Like an all in one!
There are good times in life that we enjoy and there are bad times too that we hate to face. Often when it is bad, many struggles come together to test our strength, our patience and our life. People with weak mind start wilting. Too bad!
We all want to be hale & hearty and successful. But our best learnings come from our failures, our setbacks and our challenges. Theses learnings stand in good stead for us to face the next of bad times with a peaceful thought, ‘this too will pass’.
When we have difficulties, we start blaming others and the situations. We think the world has come together to kick us on the butt. Just realise this, there are things in our control and there are things out of our control. We can only address things in our control which let us do. The rapids, the falls are out of control, let us face them. But let us not yield to those. Let us face them with grit and win over it. There are so many examples of that.
The advice here is, do not give up fast. Sometimes you may say, ‘it is coming repeatedly’. Let me assure you, it will not stay long, it may be there a while but it would go way. Transience, that is the law of nature. It comes, it goes. Guaranteed that it will.
Strengthen your mind. Pray, meditate or reflect. Find some exclusive time for yourself. Let the happening go though your mind as a trailer but PLEASE DO NOT BE JUDGEMENTAL. That is the key. By itself, it is an inside oriented therapy. It soothes, it cools, not only that, it removes ambivalence, it brings better clarity and above all, it consolidates relationship with near and dear. Try it out, please.
Remember, TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST, TOUGH PEOPLE DO.
