Saturday, October 15, 2022
It’s tempting to think that you have a problem, after all what would you talk about, if you didn’t? But is there really a problem? Even when life is going relatively well, many humans need to manufacture one as a means of getting attention. How tempting it is to compete for attention with who’s got the biggest problem! Could there be something better to discuss?
Most people living in the modern world don’t have a real reason to be so “concerned” with what’s wrong. Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen! Nobody is worse off than me. Nobody understands what I’ve been through! Is it really that hard to be you?
It’s not hard to be you, per se. It’s hard to fully accept that you haven’t a choice in the matter. You can try to blink your eyes, to “magically” change everything, but things will likely be exactly the same today as they were yesterday. Every time you think that there’s something missing in your life, that you’re incomplete, overburdened, or have been cheated somehow; you manufacture a problem. Viewing your life as problematic is a way of getting attention, that’s all. Yes, every good story has a problem, but yours isn’t anything special to “brag” about. Actually our so-called problems are what make us all the same. Challenge is normal. But listen to how others make their challenges “bigger” than yours. Is there a competition for who’s got the biggest problem? Your life isn’t the challenge. Trying to get people to focus on their blessings, how wonderful it is to be themselves, and how relatively easy their lives are – that’s the real challenge.