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Lessons in Adversity
I can’t think of anyone passing through life without experiencing some misfortune, suffering, disaster or trials of every kind. There are times when it’s either you make or break for it. Sink or Swim. Maybe, you just simply don’t know how to handle it. And when tragedy strikes in full force; you think your life is over and when the mind can’t take that too much stress, one would think of the most obvious: Take the easy way out of this hell hole! We would even think that God is sleeping or someplace else that he didn’t hear your prayers. Adversity, whether you like it or not would visit us every now and then. It’s really a matter of attitude and resiliency. In my journey in this thing called life, adversity had visited me so many times when looking back; I would say that it is indeed a miracle that I am still breathing. There are dreams that never came true, relationships that doomed to fail, of innocence gone forever, of love lost, of friends betraying you in the worst kind of way, of a grown-up neighbor molesting me when I was still a child, of parents who is so dysfunctional, sometimes…I would asked myself if the hospital made a mistake. That there might have been some exchange of babies. There are times I don’t know how it is to hear the true sound of laughter when my world exist in confusion, of despair, of those never ending fight with depression. Looking back, I have the stuff that is suitable for today’s soap opera. It does pale in comparison what they shown on prime time TV. How can I forget, when I was still a working student, I would feel so dizzy in class for I had an empty stomach. How I would rush to the school library to momentarily take my mind off from that hunger and escape to the wonderful world of books. Those books that shape me to what I am today. And because my so-called imagination is that great, there is this voice keep urging me that someday this will soon passed. That going through all that will make me a better person. The pain would be over soon. Now, I honestly would say, I have learned a lot, perhaps I even emerge
into a completely different person. Adversity had helped me to be
strong when the storm would come again. Adversity taught me to make
tough choices, I have taken risk, I learned from those countless mistakes.
It doesn’t happen overnight, it took such a long time. It was
a good fight. I had over come what is to overcome of a shady past.
Adversity, come to think of it: broadens one’s understanding,
of learning to accept the things you can no longer change. When it
comes, the only left to do is to hope, to forgive, to move on, and
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