Don't expect your problems or challenges to vanish into
thin air. Don't try to wish they weren't there.
It is the nature of Life to have problems. Deal
with Life, especially in a crisis, one step at a time. Life's pretty much like
the headlights of your vehicle. You know where you want your vehicle to go. You
know the destination. But in the darkness of the night, the headlight can't get
you to see the destination. But it can light up the distance, a few feet at a
time, and as you make progress you get to see what lies ahead. This goes on,
until of course, it is daylight or you reach the destination you were driving
to. Life works exactly the same way. The night, the crisis, is not going away
immediately. A new dawn awaits you, but it is never dawn until daylight
arrives. So, in the darkness of the night, follow the headlight principle.
Don't expect the entire road to be lit up. Be content with being able to see
just a few feet at a time. In Life, therefore, don't expect clarity and answers
to what lies a week down the road, a month, a year or in the distant future.
Know that you will survive. Know that you will ultimately prevail. Know that
you will eventually achieve your goal, reach your destination, realize your
dream.
This is as true a statement as it is to say
that a day always follows each night! Live each moment and each day completely__keeping
your focus on where you want to go, living in the awareness that if you can see
a few feet ahead, if you can survive the day, you are making good progress.
Don't ask why are you in the dark phase, groping with a crisis? Don't wish and
pine for the crisis not to have been there. These sentiments will cause you
agony and hamper your ability to think clearly. The truth is that the crisis
exists. The truth also is that you are caught in the throes of it! Accept it.
Tell yourself that if you can last the next few steps of the journey, you will
be blessed. Then when you pass the day, last that phase of the journey, work on
lasting a little longer. And keep going until time relents, the crisis blows
away and you are bathed in the warm glow of daylight, or what the world will
call, 'your success'!
An old Chinese proverb reminds us that to get through all
journeys, even the hardest ones, we need to take only one step at a time, but
what's important is, we must carry on stepping!
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