Have you ever heard stuff about “character”?
You know, the traits that make you into who you are? It’s interesting how your character is really built in hard times, not in good. I used to get annoyed by this, wanting it to be the opposite or at least to where you don’t have to have so many hard times in life.
However, now I understand that it’s only through hard times that you discover what you are made of. You discover what you can handle. You discover what you can become. You discover the humility that you need to not take yourself or life so seriously – knowing that at any moment your circumstances could change.
It’s also only through hard times that I have discovered the worth of my experiences, of my joys, of my successes, of…life. I feel like majority of my friends (even me at times) want life to come easy. We want to be able to get to where we want to be at the exact time that we want to be there. We can skip the steps needed in between.
But then, as I am writing this and lately I’ve been thinking…
What if the challenge of getting there (wherever that is that we’re trying to go) helped us to become who we are?
What if the challenge of getting there made the journey worth it? What if this was especially true as we looked back and saw everything that it took to overcome and achieve what we knew was possible but often felt with difficulties wasn’t?
They say that nothing worthwhile ever comes easy, and I now believe this to be true. Whether it be through going through high school to apply for college to going through college to apply for a job in your chosen career, it’s all of these experiences that make the moments of achievement worth it. It’s these experiences that shape your character and the person you are to become.
If everything came easy, then our character, our purpose, and all that we can offer to the world would diminish. The inspirations that could inevitably lead generations to come would be flawed. If anything to be accomplished was easy to do, then we wouldn’t appreciate it. We wouldn’t be able to handle all that came with it. We wouldn’t value it’s worth.
No one can understand your pain, your triumphs, and your inner hardships that you feel as you go along trying to achieve your dreams and the life you’ve imagined for yourself. All of these things that you feel are meant for you to feel for something greater… for your greater purpose… for the bigger contribution that your life will offer to the world through all that you had to overcome. It’s only through difficulties, sacrifice, and and hard work do we not take things for granted and that we are able to fully contribute to the world based on the lessons and overcomings that we have endured along the way.
OK, so I know how difficult things can get in life. But I also know and have constantly discovered that although nothing worthwhile never, ever comes easy, it’s so worth in the end. You’ll see.
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