In life, we all face hard times no matter who we are, where we are,what we have and how perfect our lives seem to be. The term “hard times” is however relative because it is not usually the same experience for everybody. Things that might be a challenge for me might mean absolutely nothing to someone else. The things that we go through stem from a variety of things ranging from our background, to the choices we make, the society and so on so, the tough times that we face are as different as we all are different from one another.
Apart from the fact that it is different for different people, another fact about hard times that a lot of people seem to forget is that they do not last forever. No matter how long it takes, one way or the other, we come out of it and then we have to face another. It’s just the normal cycle of life. If we remember this in our difficult situations, it gives us hope and hope keeps us going.
A lot of people have lost hope while some did not even have it to start with but what I would like you to know is that you need to stay strong and keep fighting. You can’t afford to give up because just like Dr. Robert Schuller said “Tough times never last, but tough people do”.
Hard times are not meant to break us but to refine us and make us stronger and better. I know we have heard that said a lot of times but that’s because it’s true. No student can move on to the next class without having passed all the tests of the previous class and these tests are not “acts of wickedness” like some students see them; they are necessary because the student will not be able to cope in the next class without having gone through that class. We should see the tough times we go through as preparation for the next phase of our lives. If we do not pass the round we’re in, we can’t get into the next round and even if we manage to smuggle our way through we would soon realize that we only did ourselves more harm than good.
In your difficult times, don’t give up and don’t stop believing that there is light at the end of the tunnel because there always is.
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