How Life Challenges Give Our Lives A Meaning

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This is how life challenges give our lives a meaning. Challenges aren't that bad in life. Sometimes they determine how stronger we will grow.

Obstacles are a part of our lives. It’s through them that we find the meaning of our lives. I wonder how life would have been if there was no any challenge posed to us. I’m sure life would have been so boring. Imagine achieving everything you want in your life without any effort. You want a house, here it’s. You want to go for a trip in South Africa, here is the cash. If this life had to be like this; then nothing in this world would have been developed.

Nothing would have been developed since all people get what they want in their lives. Why should they think or invent anything? It makes no sense you know…

I will not think of doing anything too if everything came to me without any determination. So, the point I’m trying to put across here is that difficulties are part of our lives which gives it the purpose. 

“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.”

_Viktor Frankl

The quote above that Viktor Frankl gave simply means that our lives are full misfortunes. It’s very true. No one had a life without any kind of complications. Everyone goes through them no matter their social classes, political positions or their origin. Everyone has to survive throughout these problems he or she comes across. The more people survive in their impediments the more people get their meaning from it.

The courage in which people get from handling their life obstacles is what gives their lives a meaning. The suffering that folks endure enables them know why they have to live their lives. I know you can relate to that.

Every career that people upholds came as a result of the challenges that they went through. If it were not for the obstacles we wouldn’t have doctors, engineers, pilots and the rest of the careers in the world.

Whether we like it or not it’s obvious that challenges are significant part of our lives which we can’t live without. The way you keep on getting through the hurdles and overcoming them the stronger you become. 

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

_William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward also never left things unturned. He expressed himself too. In the quote above, he meant that hardship, obstacles and life challenges that people go through can make them break at some point. Those folks who aren’t strong enough to overcome these obstacles end up being enslaved with them. When the obstacles enslave you this means you would already have given up on your quest.

Those who are more resilient are able to conquer these misfortunes and make their lives better. That’s the part where William mentions; others to break records. Hardship keeps us sailing through the worst part in the ocean of our on lives. The people are able to break the records are those who are courageous enough.

You have to accept that obstacles in our lives mean so much to us. Admit that without them life would have been unexciting. If your life has no challenges and problems that need to be solved, then your life is boring. When life gets uninspiring you lose control of it. It will take you to a stage where you lack a purpose of your existence.

“Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles—and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacles”

_Steve Allen.

Whenever you see anything as obstacle in your life—it will be an obstacle. We all know that the drawbacks are the things that make it impossible for us to move to the next step. So, what matters how you get through these misfortunes is your attitude as Steve tries to explain it in the above quote.

He continued saying that the difficulties and hardship that anyone endures will at result to something beautiful. The amazing things that will happen to your life would have not been possible if it were not for them. We are all now aware that, it is through the obstacles in which we find happiness.

Embrace the challenges and find better ways of handling them. They will make your mind grow, they will make you independent and strong—to handle anything on your own.

“The difficulties, hardship and trials of life, the obstacles… are positive blessings. They knit (join) the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”

_William Mathew.

The obstacles bring more good than harm as William Mathew tried to explain. Life trials and hardship are so vital in making us the people who we are today. I would not have been righting today if it were not for the hardship I endured in my life. The obstacles gave me a reason to start life blogger. They gave me the urge to help those who are in the dark.

My worst fears today have become my best fortunes. It is through what I do today, that I was able to work my way out, made the better version of me. Life would have been meaningless for me if I never knew what to fight for. Everyone needs a quest in his or her life. If you don’t know the purpose of your existence there is no need for you to live at all. Let those who know the reason for their existence thrive in this earth.

It’s really surprise how the nature of this life is. Sometimes I think so much of what people are going through in their lives. They end up term the obstacles as curse. We have other people who see them as an opportunity; they step on them and jump forward. I can say difficulties aren’t bad in our lives. They give us a chance to learn and evolve and without them our lives would have been so dull.

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems”

_Lee Iococca

Learn to perceive anything in your life as a blessing. The pain and joy that it brings to you is a blessing. In this way you will live your life happily without blaming anyone on how your life have become. Find a sense of success from the problems that you constantly face. These obstacles that you face every single day in your life are the opportunities that you will never come across.

Happiness sometimes comes from the success we obtain after overcoming the obstacles. So, the obstacles do not only bring joy in our lives but also self-reliance. How does it feel when you have accomplished what you wanted after a long period of suffering?

Compare that feeling and when something that you eagerly wanted has been done to you without any sweat. This is why Tony Robbins said,

“Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term: it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals that can give you the deepest sense and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”

To summarize, we all have to understand that obstacles are part of our lives. They are there so as to make us strong and firm. It’s through them that we find the purpose of our existence. Though, they make life difficult, but they bring joy at long last. Our lives wouldn’t have been bright if it were not for them. So, perceive the challenges you face in your life as an opportunity, and you will never fall off from your goals.

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