Many of us, fundamentally desire to have a life which does not entail us having to deal with any significant issues that would negatively impact or hurt us in regards to disappointment, rejection, pain, or loss. Yet, as much as we may so desire to avoid these very things, it is indeed the exception to the rule, when we don’t inevitably suffer from some degree of pain and disappointment in our respective lives, for some period of time, or even for a lengthy period of time. What seems to be missing so often, when we cry aloud about our particular woes, is that for so many of us, we really need to periodically have a “wake-up” call to thus get our minds and therefore our subsequent actions right, so that we don’t end up taking for granted, that which shouldn’t be taken for granted.
The thing about life, is that we really don’t know who or what we really are, unless we are tested, either by outside forces that impact our life, or when we conduct such a test upon ourselves. After all, it isn’t possible to be ready for battle or to accomplish something of significance, unless we get into the arena of life, in which, because there are so many other agents and factors within that arena, this thus means that such is not going to be in our control – necessitating therefore that we have the wherewithal to make the adjustments so needed in order to accomplish the very purpose of our starting such an engagement in the first place. In our life, we must prove not only to our own self, but also to respected others, that we can accomplish what we have so set our minds upon accomplishing.
In other words, the actions that we take within this world, must have real consequences, or else, our interest in this world, would surely be minimal. Indeed, one of the reasons why we experience pain and suffering, is to ping our conscience so as to wake us up from our lethargy or laziness of mind, to thereby make the concerted effort to overcome such, or at least, to understand better why this is so occurring to us. So too, life necessitates that there be real stakes at hand, of all that we say and do, thereby placing ourselves in the position to appreciate better the joy and satisfaction of tasks accomplished successfully, in the sure knowledge, that because of our persistence and good effort that we have succeeded in that in which we put our nose to the grindstone upon.
Life necessitates for us, some degree of drama, of which, the drama that we so face, is ours to conquer through our courageous, purposeful, and forceful actions. Those that fail in overcoming the troubles that ail them, need to comprehend, that their feelings of defeat and despondency are impressed upon them, so that they will thus be reminded to dust themselves off, and thereby to try and try again. There is, no victory more sweeter, than those that previously having been vanquished, have demonstrated their character by subsequently to have risen up to claim that which is theirs to own, of which, by doing so, they have thus successfully erased their previous pain and disappointment to reap joy and contentment, instead.