HELLO READERS,
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things. There will either be ground beneath your feet to stand on, or you will grow magical wings to fly out towards safety before finding sanctuary.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success before they gave up. Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. It’s the courage to continue that matters the most, and for that we must dig deeply into our resources. When you find yourself in a tight place, up against a brick wall with all the odds against you, never give up hope of a victory because that is the exact time and place when the tide will turn in your favour.
Rather than focus on why you can’t do something, direct your energies towards the reasons why you can, and become one of the exceptions to the rule. There is neither happiness nor misery in this world, but merely the comparison of one state of mind to the other. Only a person who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss because everything falls in line with the universal law of opposites. The best way to cheer yourself up is to offer comfort and solace to a struggling soul in need of help. Be a Good Samaritan because a friend in need is a friend indeed. Nothing is permanent and in due course, everything will change because it always does. The pressures you are struggling with today are only a breath away from the joys and pleasures of tomorrow. In the absence of challenges, adversities or reaching out to enjoy euphoria and possibilities, people would have nothing to inspire, stimulate and aim for. Instead, they would just roll over in bed and go back to sleep because of a distinct lack of motivation in their lives. So, by snoring their life away in comfort and luxury they will never aspire towards achieving their goals and greatest potential.
During the course of time everything will make perfect sense, but for now laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and confusion, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. Once the storm is over, you won’t believe how you made it through or managed to survive. You won’t even be sure if you are capable of settling yourself in the calm because it will be such a shock to the system. However, when you finally emerge into the sunlight once again, you will no longer be the same person who walked into the darkness because your life will have completely rearranged itself.
Many great and important things in this world have been accomplished by people who have kept battling on where there seemed to be no hope. Things don’t necessarily go wrong and break your heart so you that can become bitter and twisted, but to break you down and rebuild you so that you can discover your true authentic self and live a life that suits your purpose. It is necessary to encounter many defeats to know who you are and what your capabilities are before you realise your greatness. Sometimes we reach a point of no return for our own personal reasons. People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. Welcome events in whichever way they happen because they are all valuable experiences and not to be shunned nor dismissed. Happiness is not the absence of problems but developing the ability to deal with them.
Sometimes it’s just a bad day, not a bad life and friends are only strangers we have not yet met.
‘Today was a Difficult Day,” said Pooh.
There was a pause.
“Do you want to talk about it?” asked Piglet.
“No,” said Pooh after a bit. “No, I don’t think I do.”
“That’s okay,” said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend.
“What are you doing?” asked Pooh.
“Nothing, really,” said Piglet. “Only, I know what Difficult Days are like. I quite often don’t feel like talking about it on my Difficult Days either.
“But goodness,” continued Piglet, “Difficult Days are so much easier when you know you’ve got someone there for you. And I’ll always be here for you, Pooh.”
And as Pooh sat there, working through in his head his Difficult Day, while the solid, reliable Piglet sat next to him quietly, swinging his little legs…he thought that his best friend had never been more right.’
(A.A. Milne)
LOVE AND LIGHT,
LINDA AND THE LULAS XXX
