Friday, May 25, 2012

Deal with it

You don't have to like it, but what can you do?  So many things in life will never be the way you want them to be.  And many of them are completely outside of your control.  So, what are you going to do about it?  Are you going to complain to anyone who will listen?  Will it somehow make your life easier if someone else knows that how hard you have it?  (The answer is no).

Part of maturity is accepting the things in life that you cannot change.  It doesn't mean you have to like it.  It means that you look at a situation, and decide that even though you can't change it, and you can't get away from it, you will make the best of it.  If you can get away from it, then do that.  But if you can't, then accept it.

Life is filled with difficult, often painful, experiences.  That's just part of living.  Do you really want to be the person that other avoid because all they do is complain about how bad things are?  Is it really that much worse for you than for the people who aren't complaining?  Maybe the difference is in how you choose to deal with it.

Here's my advice.  Stop wishing that everything would somehow start going the way you want it to.  Life doesn't work that way.  Look around your life, and figure out what you can change, and what you can't change.  Set a course of action to change the things you can.  Accept that you have to live with the things you cannot change.  I mean, really accept it.  No sitting around feeling sorry for yourself, secretly hoping it will change.  It won't.  There is good and bad in life.  This is the bad.

Now choose to redirect your focus on the things that you are changing.  If you're working at it, then some things should be getting better.  Be proud of yourself.  Be happy about those things.

You'll find that if you choose to accept the hard stuff, and focus on the positive stuff, all of a sudden you life will seem better.  It's still the same life, but it's better.  Wouldn't you like to have a better life?  Give it a try.

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