Someone close to me once told me that my favorite city is adversity. Yes. In a way it is really true, because it is never a comfort zone. We are always facing the unknown, no matter what. It is in the face of adversity,we really learn how to live. We learn to face everything with courage and we gain the strength needed, from nowhere. We learn to face challenges. I read somewhere a quote that a challenge becomes an obstacle, only when we bow down to it. It is very true, because as long as we are able to face a challenge, it is never an obstacle. We have to make up our mind that we are not going to be beaten by the situation we are in. It is the will to face any challenge that makes our journey of life a fruitful one.
Life is beautiful and worth living, when we have confronted all the challenges and come out triumphantly with a smile, telling the world, " Look I have come out of this, try me more if you want." If life gives happiness, it is a blessing. But if it is pain, go through it with every atom of endurance. . It is no use wallowing in self pity or cribbing about our fate, because once we give in to self pity; we are killing ourselves, a kind of suicide. When we receive blessings, we never ask, "Why me?". But when we are faced with challenges we fret and fume.
I have learnt a lot the hard way. I find new joy, when I overcome each challenge thrown at me. I cannot change anything that happens to me. But I sure can change my attitude to what is happening to me. Life after cancer has changed my priorities. I love life and I try to use every moment of it, to do something that gives me immense joy. It may be a challenge to help someone, inspire someone or just be with someone who need that wee bit of inspiration. I have realized what matters to me and what doesn't. Probably cancer taught me that " you live only once and to make the most of it, while you can."
Even when I get into a tight place and everything goes against me, till it seems as though I could not hang on a minute longer, I have not given up on hope. Nor my will to never ever give up, because sometimes it is that place and time the tide will change and gain new strength to fight on. Challenges cannot define me nor beat me. I love to smile even in pain. When life tries to kick me, I give a broader smile to kick it back. I have always accepted the inevitable, and perhaps that is what keeps me going. Each time I overcome a challenge, it is a beautiful feeling of victory, because today I cannot resist a challenge.
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
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