ADVERSITY
Adversity is a beautiful thing, and here to stay. No matter how many times you say over and over, “Only good will come…only good will come…only good will come... ”adversity is what gets us motivated in life.
Oh sure, it can also exhaust us, and knock us on our asses—but that’s O.K.
How will you find the strength to get up off the ground if you never fall? How will you learn Motivation if nothing ever pushes against you?
All the Positive Thinking in the world will not stop Adversity. If life was that easy, we would all be very bored.
Anything as perfectly predictable as positive thinking is absurd—as if every unpleasant encounter could automatically duplicate the positive thoughts in our minds, and magically disappear. The idea of a “positive thought” overthrowing a “negative situation” is silly.
Negative and Positive are not choosy. They don’t notice the punishment and the reward we latch onto their concepts.
Adversity is a Teacher. It shows us our Strength, our Cleverness—our Bravery, and our Patience—and our Adaptability. It shows us the animal within—the one that steps knowingly with nature.
Adversity gives us power and fortitude—like the tree standing in its roots while being pounded by a storm.
Why would anyone want to destroy all that power and honor—power and honor that only Adversity can give us—with a strain of repetitious positive affirmations? Why are some people desperate to repeat mental reminders of beautiful desires that don’t necessarily exist? The one trying to extinguish the Adversity is not even feeling what she is saying. She is much too anxious and preoccupied to be sensitive to the true realm of Joy—or whatever positive desires she desperately creates—for the solitary reason of smothering Adversity.
Everything does not have to be perfect! It would be wonderful it that’s how life was, but we would be no better than the snails—doing nothing and going nowhere, encased within our imaginary shells of protection.
Yes, think positive! Imagine positive things surrounding you; but have no expectations of their omnipotence. Adversity cannot be destroyed—nor should it be.
It is more productive to think: I am strong; and I can handle anything—for physical manifestations do follow thought.
Keep your Positive Thinking for your own behavior and your own perceptions; but do not expect the world to change into your wonderful mental images.
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