Accepting That Life Is Difficult - Life Isn't Always Fair

When I was a kid I thought that once I became an adult, life would become easy and amazing. Now being 34 years old I am finally fully grasping just how confusing and difficult life can become. Even if you have money, health and loving people around you. Life is still difficult, You have to work very hard to keep it like that. No matter what, life is hard. If you accept that it will make it get easier.

It's the most difficult experiences in life that you learn the most from. Your failures teach you what not to do next time. Therefore having bad experiences it not necessarily a bad thing. How you perceive life is based on how you look at it. If you look at life like it's just experiences and you don't have good or bad labels attached to it then you will be more content during difficult experiences and learn more from them. You can even take it one step further and embrace bad experiences to be fully in the moment, and get everything out of it.

If you're nieve about the difficulty of navigating through life, you will be in disbelief when issues arise. which will cause you to underperform with the tasks required to get yourself out of the situation. If you accept and understand the fact that sometimes things just go bad. Then you will be calmer and have greater cognitive ability, which will
help you get through difficult times more efficiently.

The only thing in life you have a lot of control of is yourself. You can't control others to the point where you heavily influence their decision making. You have very little control over all the different variables you're exposed to every day, that can potentially make your life more difficult. This is the thing I could not fully grasp, even in most of my twenties. When one does grasp this it will instantly make them significantly more humble.

Life can be so beautiful when everything is going well. The reason for this is because everything in life is temporary. Life itself is temporary and this is what makes it so beautiful and worth living. All life on earth, every plant, animal, and cell blinks into and then back out of existence. Planets constantly change, stars burn out, it's all temporary. What that means is we are beyond lucky to even be alive. Never mind difficult times, for you to ever have come into
existence is greater than the greatest miracle you could ever hope for, but would never get because of the staggering odds
of it not happening.