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mm5057 
12:37pm, June 24, 2009
A friend of mine e-mailed this story to me....ENJOY !
Struggling is a part of life. Toddlers would never learn how to walk if they didn’t risk falling down. A mountaineer would never know the thrill of standing on the summit if he (or she) didn’t attempt to climb the mountain. By the same token, we would never know the joy of achievement if we didn’t first endure the process of trying and (more often than not) failing.
Sometimes our struggles can be tiring, frustrating, stressful and even painful, but we have to find a way to get through it. Sports icon Michael Jordan once said, "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
No one likes to struggle; it isn’t fun, but most of the time, the end result is worth the effort. Country music legend Dolly Parton said, “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." That quote is similar to a phrase in a song by one of my favorite groups, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: “If you ever want to see a rainbow, you gotta stand a little rain.” One of my college friends and I used to encourage each other by saying: “It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.”
We may never enjoy our struggles, but we can certainly come to appreciate them as a learning process. I recently came across this quote that perfectly conveys how we should handle our struggles:
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
Next time you see clouds on the horizon, don’t grumble about the coming storm. Look at it as an opportunity to learn how to dance!
I'm going to dance, now.......Go ahead my friends 'DANCE' !
Comments
That is a great entry. I like to knock the wall down instead of going around it. LOL Hopefully we all can remember these words during the storm. I know that I have to stay positive or run the risk of being sucked up in the storm.
reddutchgirl
You go reddutchgirl...knock that wall down ! I was thinking about a story i heard years ago.... Dallas Holms, told the most wonderful story about his childhood, some where in the mid-west....the long, long, winters and the snow, more snow.....and the cold......how as a child he begin to think the winter is un-ending and the snow will never melt.... and sometime in life" we go through bad time, like the winter, we think the bad times will not pass, but they do and the snow will melt !
mm5057
All the stuggles Ive had in my life and believe me Ive had my share has made me the me I am.I understand so much not what others are going though but how they feel.Only because Ive been there.I can look back now and know the climb was worth it.Wendy
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