“Once we know that life is difficult- once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult.” - M. Scott Peck.
In
life you will have difficulties getting anything you want. It is very
rare to get anything in life without some degree of effort. Only if you
win the lottery will you have everything without effort, and even then
you would have had to go out and buy the lottery ticket anyway so it’s
not free at all.
Life is hard – your boss will not always be the
nicest person in the world. Your job will have challenges that you did
not foresee. Your workmates will sometimes be a pain. You won’t always
get the salary and recognition that you want and deserve at work. Your
clients may not be the nicest people in the world.
Life is hard –
your kids won’t always be the ideal kids you want them to be. Your wife
or husband may not be as perfect as you thought they were when you
married them.Your home may
not be the ideal place you would want it to be. You may not be the perfect
wife or husband that you once thought you were.
Life is hard –
running a business is not as easy as you thought it would be. No one is
lining up to bring money to your business, even though you are a really
nice person and your business has great products to offer.
We could go on and on with these examples, but the bottom line is that “Life is hard.”
You may have worked
very hard. You’ve done all that you possibly could in your life whether
it is at work or at home. But things just don’t seem to have worked out
as well as you had planned or hoped. It all just seems to have gone
wrong and you don’t know or understand how or why.
But that’s okay. It’s normal. That’s what being human is all about. That’s what life is all about. Life is hard. Accept that.
Once
you do, you will feel better about your circumstances. Then you won’t
think of your situation as anything but what is common to every human
being. Then you will think of your situation as a part of life. You will
no longer beat yourself up about how bad things are or how you are not
doing so well in one area or another. You will realise that you are only
human. You make mistakes just like everybody else. You are not perfect
just like everybody else.
- By Dr. Moses.
Source: Motivation for dreamers