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Finding The Silver Lining When Life Brings You a Sh*tstorm
When some people break, you’ll learn to thrive
It’s easy to complain when something goes wrong; it’s easy to notice what we’ve missed.
Take the last couple of years, for example.
So many of us have focused on what we’ve been deprived of. The people we haven’t been able to see. The places we haven’t been able to go. The opportunities lost. And yet, as difficult as these past few years have been, there are also so many things that would not exist had they not happened.
A new appreciation for life and a desire for more time with family and friends; a clearer perspective about priorities in our lives; a better understanding of the world around us (and how fragile it is); an awareness that all too often those who seem to have it all, don’t really have anything at all.
Adversity is an inevitable part of life.
It’s what we do with that adversity that makes the difference. To find the benefit in every failure, we must first be honest with ourselves and recognize that we are, in fact, failing. No one is perfect, and pretending to be will only set us up for disappointment.
