I never realized that there is never an easy journey anywhere until I analyzed my life recently. Last year around December, I wrote a post and I said “the year was tough but I hope for a better one.”
Here am I again, saying the same thing. Only God knows how many times I have said that thing over the years, LOL.
Life is never designed to be smooth, it is a journey of struggles, discovery, building and growing. Humans and wishes are like five and six. We want things to just go smoothly without any barriers.
We want life to be stress free and serene like what we watch in movies and so we wish and wish for better days and nothing happens in the end.
So, we get angry, we get discouraged and sometimes doubt the process and honestly I understand with anyone feeling this way because it's not easy living in a cycle of hardship and trouble.
But come to think of it, if life was all simple and smooth, do you think we would reach where we are today?
Most of the lessons and growth we are enjoying in life were a product of rough moments in life. I am not saying that hardship or trouble is good, I hate it more than everyone.
But I don't like the idea of people normalizing saying that “life is not easy” year in, year out without being deliberate about making it better for themselves.
Of the truth, things will never be better, each year will always look tough, but those who plan ahead, those who refuse to back down, those who are intentional about growth will still grow and reach their goals.
I had a rough year this year, and I am certain that this is not just something peculiar to me, a lot of people had similar experiences.
I began the year full of energy, I had a number of goals, I wanted to achieve a number of things and things were going well, before the storm hit.
One thing I am grateful for this year is the spirit of resilience, I would have given up on everything and just accepted what life threw at me but I couldn't, I just saw myself going even with the discouragement and disappointment.
I have not achieved so much on my goals. 90% of the items on the long list are still staring at me and seriously, I feel bad sometimes but I am still happy for one thing, the lessons I got from the year.
I learned a number of things that school can't teach, I learned patience, I learned pain, I learned endurance and I learned how to survive on both little and much.
There are a few weeks left for the year to roll out and to be frank, I am not sure I'll be able to meet up with my goals for this year, nevertheless, we keep going.
I'll do what I can do, and if I hit the mark fine, if I don't, we go again.
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Beautiful
Thanks dear...