Life: A Matter of Perspective

A life without problems, oh, who doesn't want such? No bills to meet, no challenge to work, no illness in the family, absolutely zero worries. Is that possible? Maybe, but only under two circumstances I can think of. One, when we are six feet below the ground and two, when we have already lost our senses and had gone loony.

Nobody said life would be easy. It always brings us predicaments, in all shapes and sizes and we can just never live without them. The first challenge we must confront is HOW we should see the problem. Life is actually a matter of perspective: how we accept realities and how we deal with the inevitable. In our daily cycle, there are unexpected snags and hitches . As Murphy's Law suggests, when something is bound to happen, it will happen. The secret to serenity, as a writer shared, is to never argue with the inevitable. It is already there, now; let's roll up our sleeves and see how to go through this.

Yes, some ordeals are so complex that just thinking about them makes our knees grow weak. We can forego action, escape in the night and wake up in the morning with a heavy load. Or face them with a disposition that is open for maturity. As one writer penned: " all the problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, its spines crumble.

Paul Ferrini has wonderful thoughts about this fact of life: " Every lesson is a widening and deepening of consciousness. It is a stretching of the mind beyond its conceptual limits and stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries. It is bringing of unconscious material into consciousness, a healing of past wounds and, discovery of new faith and trust "

Trials bring us to critical crossroads in the long and winding roads of life. They compel us to pause for a while, and choose which way to go next. We can look at our infirmities as a punishment from God or grab the chance to become wounded healers for others. We can be angry over the death of a beloved or we can celebrate the beauty of life with the living. We can be embittered by the mistakes of the past or we can be hopeful for the promise of the future. In every pain and problem we go through , we become fuller, more whole and learned persons.