It has probably not escaped your attention that there are a lot of people who complain an awful lot about life being hard.
Of course, some people are perfectly justified in making that assertion because their life truly is hard. At the opposite end of the scale some people some folks just seem to be caught in a perpetual pattern of whining about every time they experience any kind of setback, no matter how trivial.
Who Promised You a Rose Garden?
Something to keep in mind, though, is that nobody promised anybody that life was going to be easy at the moment they popped out of the womb! And if your parents said something like that to you? Shame on them!
Of course, for some life seems to be relentlessly hard.
I tend think a bit of it as being in your comfy and fairly stable boat on a large river that's heading downstream towards a 10-story tall waterfall... you're paddling upstream to get away from — at least keep your distance from — the waterfall. What makes life a tad difficult is that the river slows through Canyon walls that are steep and tall so you can't just pull over and sit down on a beach somewhere... you have to keep paddling at all times, or you end up going backwards towards — and possibly over — the waterfall.
Now you do have enough strength and endurance that you can paddle just a little bit faster than the current most of the time and if you put a lot of energy into it, then you can actually gain on it a bit, at least temporarily.
The "relentless" part comes into play when the realization sets in that if you want to take so much as five minute break to rest a bit, you're immediately going to start losing ground, and drift downstream... and should you actually have the gall to think that you could go to sleep and rest your weary bones for a while (because you really DO need rest), you with absolute certainty will go over that waterfall and be smashed against the rocks below.
The Psychological Burden
And that's how we end up with a substantial part of the population — if not the majority — living in a state of being alternatively exhausted and depressed, mixed with periods of feeling really angry and railing against the system.
To be honest I never expected there to not be a waterfall; I never expected there to not be a swiftly flowing current always pulling me back; and I never really expected to get any help either... but it would be really nice if even occasionally there was a peaceful beach I could pull my boat up onto and sit down, without that eternal awareness that if I so much just take five minutes to rest I'm going to drift back towards that deadly waterfall.
It wears you down, after a while. It eats away at your ability to actually enjoy life. Everything takes on a grayness, of sorts.
But Enough About That!
There's a difference between recognizing — and periodically complaining about — that things are hard, simply because that happens to be your reality... and sitting around and whining about it, and feeling entitled to an "exemption" from the whole thing.
You're not that special. Life is hard!
Thanks for reading, and have a great rest of your week!
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