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We are not where we are in our lives by happenstance, good things did not just happen to us, we made them happen through courage, commitment, passion, strength, and a desire to be greater than the people we already are. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing; he may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. I think that you can’t truly appreciate life without the rough spots. There will be mountains made out of molehills, guaranteed. Sad times, angry times, black and blue times, on-the-spot times and times you wish didn’t even exist. There will be times regretted, erased from your memory, times that seem pointless and wasted. Without these times you can’t appreciate the other times. The uplifting times, the inspiring times, the warm sunshiny yellow times. Times where you feel the world is looking at you and admiring you, times where you win, and times where you see that your work has actually paid off. When nothing seems to help I go back and look at the stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps one hundred times without so much as a crack showing yet at the hundred and first blow it split in two and I know that it was not that blow but all that had gone before. Often times we view suffering as a bad thing. Suffering is repeatedly associated with pain. Pain is just weakness leaving the body. The greatest thing about pain is that it lets you know you are still alive. It is the ultimate test of human endurance, will. Its results discover the pure composition of grit. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will. It teaches one their limits and then pleads with them to exceed. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. No man was more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction in life is never having been afflicted. Suffering therefore becomes a staple point in human existence. It is a guarantee that eventually at one point or another one will suffer.
The reason why god makes some people’s lives harder than others is because he know that those without the problems can’t handle the pressure but those with the pressure have a unique faith that no one else could ever dream of having. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes your doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do is shovel shit from a sitting position. It is easy to have faith in something when it goes your way. It is easy to be the Monday morning quarterback, to declare the coulda shoulda wouldas had I been given another chance. That isn’t faith. That is liking what works and disliking what doesn’t. Faith, though is unwavering, it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how, the moment you know you begin to die a little, we never entirely know, we guess, we may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark. Sometimes it seems like when you are in the dark there is absolutely no light…it is completely black right? You’re wrong. When there is to much of something there is always something to fall back on. Look at it this way: silence is one those things…that when there is to much silence, when there is complete silence with nothing else making any noise, you know that freaky quiet - it ALWAYS sounds like something is ringing. It always sounds so loud. Complete silence is probably one of the loudest sounds I know. Just like the dark, the dark is probably one of the lightest things I know, because great things can come out of the dark. Great things come out of suffering. In the end it is not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. When all is said and done all roads lead to the same place so it is not so much which road you take as to how you take it.
The reason why god makes some people’s lives harder than others is because he know that those without the problems can’t handle the pressure but those with the pressure have a unique faith that no one else could ever dream of having. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes your doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do is shovel shit from a sitting position. It is easy to have faith in something when it goes your way. It is easy to be the Monday morning quarterback, to declare the coulda shoulda wouldas had I been given another chance. That isn’t faith. That is liking what works and disliking what doesn’t. Faith, though is unwavering, it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how, the moment you know you begin to die a little, we never entirely know, we guess, we may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark. Sometimes it seems like when you are in the dark there is absolutely no light…it is completely black right? You’re wrong. When there is to much of something there is always something to fall back on. Look at it this way: silence is one those things…that when there is to much silence, when there is complete silence with nothing else making any noise, you know that freaky quiet - it ALWAYS sounds like something is ringing. It always sounds so loud. Complete silence is probably one of the loudest sounds I know. Just like the dark, the dark is probably one of the lightest things I know, because great things can come out of the dark. Great things come out of suffering. In the end it is not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. When all is said and done all roads lead to the same place so it is not so much which road you take as to how you take it.