Buddha said that life is suffering, meaning he was
pessimistic even though he was spiritual and usually won his enemies over. Buddha does have these thoughts of pessimism
because he’s human like us. I speak as though he’s in the presence because he is
in the presence. He’s in the clouds, the
river, the pebble in your shoe, and he’s everywhere. Ha! I put ‘pebble in your shoe,’ because I
imagine a pebble in his sandal when he’s walking on his journey to wherever on
foot and he's going, “AHhh, this pebble loves me that’s why he’s in my shoe,
beautiful pebble, you need not to struggle, please be free, be with
the others like me! I know you, pebble,
you love me, too, I am the same as thee…” and then he carefully places the
pebble in the river so he could feel the lovely cool water run through it away from
the burning sun.
That pebble is each of us, struggling, tagging along
whomever guides him through life. He is
struggling because he does not understand the ‘almighty Buddha’ but is tagging
along just to be finally understood or to learn from his ‘teacher.’
When you struggle, you are shook up. You hold on tight but keep your focus. These obstacles that you experience in your
life, test your strength or will, your understanding of things, your preparedness,
your attitude toward the experience and etc when you are going over
obstacles. How well you do under
pressure tests your true character, your strength and will. Sometimes it’s so hard that you give up and
frail within yourself.
When you hit rock bottom is when you can look up
towards the sky and have hope and faith for yourself.
I have hit rock bottom many times, but what I’ve learned
when it comes to situations is that you must ‘accept, deal with it, and move
on.’
First, you accept, because all this time you were in denial,
not believing what had just happened.
You have to accept in order to deal with it. Acceptance is key. A lot of times, people don’t accept what has
happened to them, go through their own misery not understanding the
situation. I learn to accept because I
was in denial for a long time after I got sick.
Right when I accepted that I could not go back to school and start all
over again or start a career, I decided to do something about my misery, moping
around on the couch by going back to work after I had recovered from being ill. I had to deal with my illness in
order to move on, so I moped around on the couch in the living room for about
two years and finally decided that I had to do something, so I decided to move
on. I kind of moved on and left it
behind and only talk about it when I want people to understand and relate,
which I am doing now.
These three things helped me get over situations.
These experiences that I have had in the past, allowed me to
be appreciative of having to go through them in the past, because it taught me
a lot about how to deal with things and
move on. Whatever you learned from the
past teaches you what you should do in other experiences that you may have a
chance to go through. I say “chance” because
it is way to understand that you need to go through experiences to learn from
life. I had to understand that…without acceptance, I cannot move on. I needed to come to meaning when it came to
acceptance, because the meaning of acceptance is to let go. Or in order to let go, I had to deal with it
secondly. Many people go through life
not dealing with things and when that problem or thing or person shows up, they
end up breaking down and crying because they have not dealt with it.
Dealing with it means I had to absorb all of the pain and
suffering and sit with it until I was able to no longer have the feelings of
misery and hatred for myself. You go
through the process of dealing with things by letting yourself feel the pain in
a way, building tolerance so you can get over something else if something was
to happen to you again.
So that’s how I moved on from situations, and these
situations made me very wise for my age.
People say I am very wise, and Yes, I admit I am. I am very appreciative of my experiences and
I am appreciative of the emotional roller coaster I went through--the anger,
the sadness, the crying, the helplessness, because it allowed me to find hope
and faith in things. And Hope and faith
is so important, it lets you find that spark to be able to move on or move into
the problem of the matter and decipher what you are really dealing with. You need to understand why and what your
situation is, to really learn.
I feel that life is amazing and that it is beautiful because
you learn from everything. You learn from movies, books, articles online and
offline, cartoons, games, anything.
These things are manmade, in which you do also learn from, that’s why
you learn from everything. There is
lesson in your struggles, a lesson that goes unheard and unseen that one day
shows up and hits you square in the face, and says “Hey, you learned of me
before, now deal with me please…”
I hope you understand now, that I think my life is amazing
because of my shortfalls and everyone has a story. If you want, please comment here in the
comment box about your story and be brave, because the world is listening all
time, it’s just that you need to give it attention, love and care.
Please ‘accept, deal with it and try to move on…”
If you can’t move on because you have realized that it was
too important to let go, please comment about your story.
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