Are challenges damaging or necessary in life?
Life is just a series of challenges, large and small, and there are only two roads in the way we deal with our daily lives, our communication with ourselves and with the world around us; confrontation or escape.
In other words, to know the truth about our characters, do we feel panic and hurry to the nearest haven to hide and mourn our bad luck, or we will we be positive and vital and face our challenges? It’s up to us, we can make small problems great, or we can make big problems small. It is simply how we deal with the events of our daily lives is what reflects how we act when faced with great challenges.
There are among us humans those who panic, lose control of their reasoning, their minds become confused, which results in emotional decisions free of logic. You feel like you are next to fuse ready to burn, explode and aggravate the situation at any moment! Because their minds are unfocused, they exaggerate the perception of events, and sometimes create big challenges from small challenges that originally are without basis.
We chant to ourselves: “What is required of me is difficult, it cannot be done! This hasn’t happened to me before, I don’t know what to do! Why always me and not others?” And then they wonder why, when they lose the confidence of others in their leadership or management or taking responsibility. They wonder when friends and loved ones pull away from them, because these kind of people spread negative energy to those around them, while causing themselves mental and physical stress. At the same time they may surrender to more negative drives, such as jealousy, hatred, sleep, fear and depression all of which will not help them or solve the problem.
Of course, the matter may swell to become disastrous for them and those around them, especially if they are in positions of responsibility, such as the head of the family, or a manager, or an official in a dynamic organization.
We must train ourselves to dismantle challenges to small parts in order to deal with them separately, and learn how to get out of the box and see reality from the outside.
We should not let our feelings control us and drag us down and take decisions, which may lead to the destruction of the family, or work. We should be careful not to negatively affect the future of our young men and women waiting for us to get them out of the ditch, pave their roads and light they way, so that they can read the signs that pass them in life and be able to confront challenges.
If we want to face life’s challenges successfully, we need to a have a positive mindset, based on patience, will, logic and wisdom, and put aside emotions where we need them for human relationships, sympathy participation and cooperation with others.
We train ourselves to focus in order to find solutions, and nothing should stop us except our imagination. There are no impossible tasks, and there is no event in our lives that we can not take advantage of to remain firm and strengthen our determination, what doesn’t kill us teaches us, so we must move away from negative feelings, self pity and bemoaning what is happening to us.
We must look to the challenges positively, and work with them and through them on this basis. So with this attitude to life, we will not ask: Why? But ask when the next challenge will come?
Eventually when we succeed in the face of challenges and overcome them, we can say that we have lived the life of achievement and excitement, and we move forward with confidence as long as our weapon of faith that God while closing one door, opens a hundred windows, and all we have to do is sharpen our insight in order to be ready to identify which window to choose.
(Courtesy of Al-Watan Newspaper)
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