Often, we must go through the worst to achieve the best!
One certainty in life is that nothing is easy; almost nothing is obtained without struggle, dedication, perseverance, and attitude. Moreover, maintaining what we’ve achieved also requires dedication and commitment, or it will all be lost. Nothing endures where there is no watered, fertilized ground, for where no one cares, nothing remains.
Life squeezes and bolts, corners, retreats, pulls and releases, at all times, putting us to the test, trying our ability to rise again, to start over. This is how we become stronger, more secure, valuing what and who really matter, ceasing to waste time on what does not add, does not sum, does not enrich the senses.
Much of what we want we will not be able to achieve, which will leave us broken and sad. Many people will not love us back, which will hurt our hearts.
Many people will disappoint us, which will lead us to give up on them. Over time, however, we will resume wanting, loving, trusting, because it is all this that enables us to live.
Unlike school, in life, tests occur before the lessons, because it is experience that teaches us, it is pain that strengthens us, it is losses that direct us to the objectives to be prioritized. After having crossed the darkness of mistakes and emotional storms, we become more eager to achieve happiness which, when felt, then fills us in all its fullness.
There is no other way to learn than by traversing the intended paths, feeling within oneself the pain, sweat, and pleasure that every journey contains. We cannot understand the other, except by putting ourselves in their place, understanding that each person is unique and special, because they feel in a peculiar way, according to what they have experienced and possess within themselves.
Some things will enter our lives calmly, like true love, a friendly smile, eyes that meet, comforting people. Other times, we will suffer, fall, cry alone, clinging to a thin thread of hope, before being able to calmly savor what will then be part of our lives.
That is why we cannot stop dreaming, loving, smiling, or crying, because all of this is life. All of this is undeniable proof that we were made to last.
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