Life is going to knock you on
your rear end. It will happen. It has nothing to do with kind of person you are.
It happens to everybody. It will happen and it happen without cause or purpose
or reason. What you deserve has nothing to
do with it. Life is unfair. The powers that be in the world aren’t picking on
you. Life is often unfair for you and everyone else. But there are ways of
dealing with setbacks. Failure is very democratic in its reach. Bad things and setbacks
happen even to the finest people. It’s not God, the universe, or the human race
conspiring to ruin your best laid plans. Everybody gets defeated once in a
while. The hard reality is that setbacks are a part of life, your life, my life.
Everybody will take a sound life-thrashing every now and then. This is the reality of life, learning to
accept it is half the battle.
It’s all about balance. Success
is not a permanent state, its transient. Things change. Don’t worry about it
and don’t let it get you down. Just because you ran into a string of defeats doesn’t
mean you have to be defeated. This too shall pass, I assure you it will. Keep
your hopes up and keep dreaming. That sounds easier than it really is because disappointment
has a way of lowering hope.
Look, you can’t win anything
without meeting defeat and disaster along the way so adjust your expectations
to fit the defeats. In fact, do your best to enjoy the inevitable. When life
knocks you to the canvass, stay there and take the 8 count. Relax, take in the view. When you’re ready,
not when the world tells you you’re ready but when you’re ready, get up off the
floor and get back into the fight. Repeat as needed.
Learn what you can from your
downfall but remember that sometimes defeat has no lesson. It just happens. There
is nothing to learn from it. And when
you do get up, get up with as much grace and style as you can because people
tend to believe what they see.
Here’s the bottom line; you’re
going be okay, you’ll see.
