When I feel like giving up, the following thoughts tend to help. I hope you find something in them for yourself.
1. Everyone is struggling.
Everyone. It may seem like some people have it easy. It may be true that others don’t have your particular set of mental, emotional, financial, relational, spiritual, physical or other challenges.
They have their own. Who or whatever created the universe and life in it did not discriminate when it comes to suffering. Everyone has a share of it. The rich and the poor, famous and inconspicuous, the powerful and the weak….are all susceptible.
People who are thought to ‘have it all’ are often the cause of shock and dismay when we learn of their troubles, often after a drug overdose or suicide.
When you see people smiling, laughing, celebrating and carrying on, seemingly without a care in the world, you’re seeing a snapshot of their lives, a brief moment that means less than nothing.
You’re not seeing their struggle. And they are not seeing yours. Their challenges are as real to them as yours are to you.
[For more of this story, written by Mike Bundrant, go to http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...feel-like-giving-up/]
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