Challenges

"Storms make trees take deeper roots"

The word challenge has such a negative connotation. Weither its a mountain or a road block or an ocean. A challenge is always a test of endurance, strength, adaptation to change. Its everything humans are renowned for, our ability to climb that mountain and overcome that road block. But the pain-causing, strength absorbing, emotionally rollercoasting challenge seems so unbenefitial. I believe it was a philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, that said what does not destroy me, makes me stronger. But he attended an all boys school, so what does he know?

Challenges are hard to discuss. I neither search for pity nor gratitude. I do not intend to generalize people. But I find, as I grow. You watch some who haven't hit a roadblock. They float. Floaters. Never to feel a huge loss, never dealt with a huge disappoitnment, never needed to take on that challenge. One could assume they haven't the wisdom, the reality, the understanding, the endurance, the emotional threshold as someone who is constantly challenged. To the contrary, those constantly feel hardships and heartbreaks. - They crash. But gain this keen sense of survival.

As the storm ceases, as the summit of the mountain appears, as the road clears of blocks, and as the tide recedes - Understand for every challenge, a victory and a gain.


"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength"