Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.
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If your present life is hard, it’s ok – it isn’t something to beat yourself up about. Beating yourself up over the way things are will only serve to slow you down and make your journey more difficult than it needs to be.
If you’re going to dwell on anything, dwelling on steps you can take to further push your life in the direction you want to go is far more beneficial than beating yourself up over where you are.
Always remember that we learn far more when we struggle than we do when life fails to challenge us.
Whatever it is you’re dealing with now will make you both stronger and wiser if you look for the lessons that can be learned from the experiences you’re having – not because they are easy, but because they are hard. And these are lessons that you will be able to carry with you into the parts of your life that are better because you leaned them.
When you are feeling weak, always take a moment to remind yourself that you are a survivor of every hardship you’ve ever faced in life. You’ve consistently overcome the worst that life has thrown your way, year after year after year.
No one feels strong 100% of the time. Even the people you look up to and respect most in the world have been knocked down, felt unwell, or needed time to just breathe.
Life can be hard – resist the urge to beat yourself up further when it is. It’s ok to not be ok. Give yourself the time & mental space necessary to get better by refusing to focus on things that make you feel worse.
You will overcome whatever you are dealing with now, as you have with everything you’ve previously faced. This is but a very small part of your life. In the grand scheme of things, you’re doing ok. Keep going.
We live in a world where people look, but don’t see. Hear, but don’t listen. Experience, but don’t learn. And are given warnings, but ignore them.
Just because something has been expressed before by someone else in one way or another – and nearly everything has – it doesn’t mean it isn’t worth repeating.
Sometimes it isn’t just the message that matters, it’s the messenger.
While being uncomfortable isn’t a joyful experience for almost anyone, dealing with discomfort is an absolutely essential part of life because it is a catalyst for personal growth.
It is entirely possible for something that brings you discomfort at one time in your life to be a source of great joy in another. For example, facing fears and pushing one’s self to try new things is frequently a turning point in many people’s lives. By confronting things that make them uncomfortable, many people learn to not just overcome the discomfort associated with those things, they can actually draw pleasure from them as well.
Think of the person with a fear of heights who takes up skydiving. Or the person with a fear of deep water learning to SCUBA dive.
Just because something doesn’t bring you joy doesn’t mean that you should disregard it. The fact is, even the less joyful aspects of our lives are important because they provide contrast and personal growth.
