“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.”
How often do you find yourself feeling like you're the only one enduring all of the challenges that life throws at you alone? You constantly feel like it's always one thing after another and the feeling of defeat starts to take over your mind. Somedays you feel as though you're never going to see brighter days. But I'm here to tell you to stand up with your head high and shoulders back, because you are NOT alone. I promise you that.
Sometimes we tend to go through these rough patches and forget how truly blessed we are. Despite the stress, sadness, loneliness, defeat, and/or heartbreak you feel....there's always someone out there who is going through tougher times and has it way worse than you do. Sometimes with the things you go through it's easy to feel like your life is the worst, but if you look in anybody else's closet, you probably wouldn't even trade their life for yours. Sometimes as humans when we feel so overwhelmed with life's stressors, we completely forget to take appreciation for the little things that we DO still have. Yes you may be sad, but still have a significant amount of breath left in you for a new day. Yes you may be tired, but you still have so much strength in you to keep going. Whatever you feel right now, or may have felt in the past, always remember the struggle IS real, but it's always going to be worth it.
The wisest, most loving, and well rounded people you have ever met are likely those who have known misery, known defeat, known the heartbreak of losing something or someone they loved, and have found their way out of the depths of their own despair. Truth be told, when hard times hit, and the challenges you face are great, you can either let your situation define you, let it destroy you, or let it strengthen you. When it comes to becoming the person you want to be, there are going to be a lot of times where you are placed in uncomfortable situations to reach the mountain tops you've never seen. The feeling of being uncomfortable is going to show you that you were capable of facing things that you didn't even know was possible. The thing is, you are so much stronger than you know but in order to see strength you can't be so dependent on staying the same. Break down any and every boundary that may stand in your way and always keep faith. God gives his TOUGHEST battles to his STRONGEST soldiers. You are only strong, when you admit that you are weak.
The one thing I think nobody ever seriously learns until it happens to them, is how life will have a way of kicking you when you're down. Just when you think you can't fall any lower, you get kicked again. In each struggle and hardship you face, its important to always strive to be stronger than your past strength. Shitty things DO and WILL happen. However, it's how you bounce back that matters. Tough times never last but tough people always do. The things that you eventually start to overcome are only going to become easier because of knowing what it feels like to be at rock bottom. When you ask, you are bound to receive but nobody said the receiving part would be a walk in the park. There's going to tears, trials, sacrifice, tribulations, hardship and triumph. You are capable of doing it all on your own if you have to, as long as you truly believe you can!
So here's to the people that were told they weren't gonna make it. The people who've been fired, the people who've been in that unhealthy friendship/relationship, the people who've been waiting on that call back from a job, the people who've been feeling like they've been down on their luck. Defeat is only the pending process of a come up. The mountains that you are carrying, you are only suppose to climb. Fall down, but don't stay down. You cannot win until you have lost. Rock bottom is about to show you how beautiful the view at the top is.
-- Niyah
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