strength to endure

We find ourselves in hard places making difficult decisions. Sometimes we understand fully the effects of our decisions and sometimes we just don't. We live life with an opinion as to how everything around us is, and use our own lives as yardsticks as to determine just how difficult or easy things are.

Children in Africa and around the world in places with harsh lifestyles, grow up knowing life as most of us would know as being terrible, yet there are some of them that do live on and grow up after this. Imagine a life where you are taken away from your parents before you can comprehend what they look like and what they were like, then you get placed in a camp where you are given food enough only to sustain your life and put through a rigorous regime of training and hardship. What state of mind would you find these types of people? For certain i know that i think its a totally sad and tough circumstance to live in. How do they manage?

I know that we find ourselves in life with tough situations that feel as if we are on the verge of falling apart. We also give up before we get into anything because only to avoid the anguish of breaking down or loosing hope. This i feel is a bit sad as we should not be living life in fear of things that might happen if we do something out of our safety zone.

As in a previous post, http://thinkrandomness.blogspot.com/2012/05/get-up-dont-give-up.html, i speak about a person not having more than they can handle. How would we even know what we are capable of if we do not go out and explore? Yes, we will get hurt, yes we will find the going tough, and yes we will hate a lot of it, though what we do get is actually living life and experiencing things we never would have otherwise. We add meaning to our lives.

The more aware we are of our lives and the type of lives our fellow human beings are exposed of, the more we have an idea of what the capabilities of us as humans are.
We know that we have the capability of visiting the moon, going to the deepest depths of the ocean and climbing the highest of mountains, but we also need to put into perspective that we can endure harshness and difficult times just as well.

For all the things we aspire to do, we have people who aspire to be as we are. Most of us wouldn't find ourselves at the extremes, yet we all want to strive to live the best life possible. We cannot choose where we are born or what language we speak, yet we all have things in life that might seem very difficult.

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" - Bruce Lee

Lets be strong in character, deep in understanding and open to possibilities. Life is an unknown, we need to take our opportunities and savor every moment as we savor the things we enjoy the most.