A Life Without Challenges!

"A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding." - Terry Fallis, The High Road 

Has any one in this whole wide world be spared of difficulties or challenges during his/her life time? At least I havent seen any one who has been. But still we see people with different emotions all around us.  Some who are always laughing, smiling, enjoying their moments of life. At the same time there are some who are equally opposite! crying over small things, always brooding and complaining. Having seen such contradictions I always felt that life is really partial.  Some are having happiness in abundance and for some its a distant dream.  But when I closely looked at few of such cases I realised its not that life is partial but its our view which surely is.  We see only the smile on the face of people and deduce that there lives are free from worries but we do not try to understand the way in which they handle their challenges and problems and I guess that's where the difference lies.  A person minus problem is not possible but a person minus negativity is definitely possible and that makes all the difference.

Imagine a life with out a problem.  Its like going to school but not learning a lesson, eating food with out actually cooking (well actually its possible e.g. eating in a hotel but eventually someone will need to cook so that you can eat!).  It is said that the life is a big tutor and the challenges are lessons which we need to learn. These lessons learnt through out our journey are nothing but the opportunities.  Opportunities to grow, to learn and to be wise.  Each lesson unless learnt will keep repeating its self so that we can learn and master it.  The people whom we often see happy are the bunch who acknowledge their problems, face them and eventually learn from these problems. Life will always present us with difficulties but that will become less difficult when we start acknowledging that fact and instead of running away from it, start facing them. When we stop running from the challenges, they become less challenging.

If you have seen the caption of the advertisement for 'chrome browser' it says 'web is what we make of it!'  I guess the same can be said for our lives and its challenges.  'Life is indeed what we make of it!' Isn't it?