We never know how much time we are going to be given; how much time we still have left.

And what a waste of that time for us to spend it sad and sour. But it's easy, isn't it? It's easy to be miserable when things go wrong, to get upset at people who mistreat us, to get frustrated when we are forced to wait in traffic or in a lineup at the grocery store. We like comfort, don't we? We don't like when things don't go our way.

When we get upset during stressful circumstances, it likely isn't going to change things for the better.

Getting angry at the traffic won't make it go any faster. Huffing and puffing in the lineup will probably just get you a number of judgmental looks, not prompt anyone to move any faster or provide any better customer service for you. And you might even end-up going viral on Youtube depending on the level of your public tantrum.

If we are suffering from a physical disease, if we don't have enough money to pay our bills, if the fridge is looking bare, these aren't problems that are going to be improved by our decision to embrace the misery in the difficulty and challenge that we face.

Usually, if we choose to embrace that negative attitude, it only makes things worse for us and only adds to the difficulty of trying to deal with the situation.

Joy can be uplifting and can provide strength to get through difficult times. Sadness, anger, and frustration on the other hand can easily set you back and act as a stumbling block. Is it possible to maintain a good attitude despite our suffering? I believe that it is, but is it easy? Not at all.

One of the most extreme circumstances of misery, where I would assume it'd be especially trying to attempt keeping a good attitude, is for those who are detained behind bars and who have their freedom stripped away from them. And one specific case that I'd like to mention is that of Viktor Frankl who was sent as a prisoner to Auschwitz.

Frankl was a psychotherapist and allegedly tried to help many others inside the prison to regain a sense of purpose, to try and persuade them against committing suicide.

Frankl had said that for those who were intellectually rich, that despite their outward conditions, that they had the ability to retreat during such times of difficulty to a life of inner spiritual freedom and inner riches.

The ability to maintain a good attitude acted as a self-defense mechanism for those inmates and provided them strength to carry on in those conditions in the hopes that they would see their loved ones again or one day be free of living under such tyranny.

Though we might find ourselves in difficult circumstances in life, we can choose how we endure that position of suffering.

There is always someone out there who has it worse off than whatever our current situation might be and despite those who might be suffering physically or financially etc elsewhere in the world, sometimes you'll find that those folks who have the least will be the kindest and most generous.

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Maintaining A Good Attitude In The Midst Of Suffering

We never know how much time we are going to be given; how much time we still have left.

When we get upset during stressful circumstances, it likely isn't going to change things for the better.

If we are suffering from a physical disease, if we don't have enough money to pay our bills, if the fridge is looking bare, these aren't problems that are going to be improved by our decision to embrace the misery in the difficulty and challenge that we face.

Usually, if we choose to embrace that negative attitude, it only makes things worse for us and only adds to the difficulty of trying to deal with the situation.

Frankl had said that for those who were intellectually rich, that despite their outward conditions, that they had the ability to retreat during such times of difficulty to a life of inner spiritual freedom and inner riches.

Though we might find ourselves in difficult circumstances in life, we can choose how we endure that position of suffering.

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