Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us…

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I learned that phrase many years ago from a person I know via my work. I recall being saddened at the time it was said to me knowing how much this person had endured. What I didn’t appreciate until much later in my life is just how wise this person is! Today I celebrate this person’s wisdom.

It certainly has been the case in my life that through the really tough times I’ve learned so much and grown so much in various ways too.

If it weren’t for that really hard time I would have not grown as I did.

That reality makes it a tad bit more palatable to face in the moment the pain of whatever it is that is really hard to endure.

Good comes from bad.

Sometimes we have to look hard for it. Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see it too.

Adversity strengthens us.

We have to find and use life tools to weather through it, to feel the pain, to grow in the way’s life strengthens us. Giving up diminishes us and prevents the very growth we need to sustain life.

Avoiding pain prevents us from fully living.

Life is painful at times it just is. Life is hard at times it just is. Life is not fair at times it just is not. That is reality. That is life itself it just is!

What are the life tools you use to weather through the really hard times?
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