Don't expect your problems or
challenges to vanish into thin air. Don't try
wishing that 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 in a crisis is 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 sure can light up some part of the way, 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
likely to go 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, when in a crisis
situation, don't expect clarity and answers to what lies a week down the road,
a month, a year or in the distant future. Just believe 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 today, you are making
good progress. Don't ask why are you in the dark phase or why you are 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 each day, when you 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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