i was thinking (rare occurrence, i know) just about life and stuff. i actually think a lot about life when i watch anime. i guess i am letting on about how big a nerd i actually am on the inside. so anyhow, i was thinking about how life tests you.
a lot of people feel that they are being tested when things go wrong in their lives. We tackle the challenge of rising above our problems and learning from and adapting to the situation. Its all very human. We look deep inside ourselves for the answers. was it something i did? how can i make sure this never happens again? what is the best way for me to react? what lessons can i apply to my everyday life? how does this affect my principles? Being tested is an important part of life and the way you deal with these tests is what separates an adult from a child, girl from woman, boy from man. holding on to the lessons you gain from these tests is what growing up is all about. But we arent just tested when things get hard.
i think that a finer, more subtle test in life is when things are going well. how do you handle yourself when it feels like you'ge got 'the world on a string'? Those periods in life when things just seem to fall into place are another sort of test. a test of character, a test of resolve. Because it is so easy to put away those important things you learned when things were going bad. The changes you promised yourself you would make, the lessons you said you would never forget. How quickly they all escape our minds when things are looking up. Its so easy to become full of yourself, as if your good fortune is under your control. Or to feel like these good things are things that are owed to you. To just get a general sense of cockiness.
When it feels like everything is being handed to you on a platter, and stuff just starts to fall into place, that is the real test. Thats what really separates the adults from the children. Here is the time to prove your character, not in a tearfully painful life lesson, but in those times when life is just easy.
As rare as they may be.
1 comment:
Hey, are we going through the same things in life? It seems that everytime I go to your blog it relates to my life somehow. Well, right now I'm being tested and unfortunately, I'm falling into the same pattern. It's comfortable and familiar. I know what will happen if I don't put a stop to it now but for some reason I lack the strength to change. I rather enjoy it while it lasts then cut it short now.
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