Sometimes, what you earnestly seek for is right before you (but maybe encapsulated in challenges and problems), which is why you need to look way beyond what you can see on the physical. When challenges present themselves to you, try to see the bright side of them - and yes! There would always be a bright side to focus on.
Opportunities; most times; would not come to you as "opportunity" (like; "hey there, I am opportunity"), but may be embedded in what you least expect. Remember this; life would only give you orange, and not orange juice - so if you would need the juice, then you have to be the one to carefully extract them from the orange.
In the same way; everything you might need to be successful is right before you, just look beyond the bending limits. Okay I ask you this; can you ever find gasoline in its purified form in the ground? Obviously not; you can only find crude oil, so the onus is laid on you to refine it if you must have gasoline.
Just like crude oil has many components (gasoline, kerosene, wax, etc), the same situation that comes your way might present different opportunities to you from what it presented to someone else - so you need to take advantage of the one you want.
Opportunities may not wait for you, and may not repeat themselves in the same form. So as they come, make the most out of them.
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