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Everyone’s reality is different. However, there are some realities that are true for all of life.
Life is difficult: Somehow people seem to believe that life is supposed to be easy. This is particularly a problem in America today. We expect a smooth, easy road to success. We expect out lives to be hassle free. We expect the government to solve our problems. We expect to get the prize without having to pay the price. That is not reality. Life is hard.
There is no quick and easy way. Nothing worth having in life comes without effort. If we do not understand and accept the truth that life is difficult then we set ourselves up for failure and we would not learn.
Life is difficult for everyone: Even if we are willing to concede that life is difficult for most people, deep down inside many of us secretly hope somehow that this truth would not apply to us. I am sorry to say it is not so. No one escapes life’s problems, failures and losses. If we are to make progress, we must do so though life’s difficulties.
Life is more difficult for some than for others: Life is like a deck chair. Some people place their chairs facing the real of the ship so they can see where they have been. Other people face their chairs forward, they want to see where they are going.
Life is more difficult for some than it is for others. The playing field is not level. You may have faced more and greater difficulties in life than I have. You may have faced fewer. Your life right now may feel like clear sailing or it may feel like rough waters. And comparing our lives to others ultimately is not that productive. Life is not fair and we should not accept it to be. The sooner we face that reality, the better we are going to be at facing whatever is coming toward us.
