Nov
25
2009
Everyone Has Something They Have To Live With
Author: siggyEveryone has something they have to live with. Sometimes that something is more apparent: obvious illnesses and handicaps. Most of the times that something is invisible. Although if you spend any length of time with that person you usually find out what the difficulties are they are going through.
Some people act as if their unique set of problems is the worst thing in the whole world. The grass is always greener elsewhere. Actually our attempts to solve our personal problems is what makes our life interesting.
It is so easy to magnify our problems–distort them. It is so freeing to find out other people also have problems that appear to have no solutions and also have unresolved conflict.
It is so important not to isolate yourself because when you do your problems always appear larger than they actually are. Your problems shrink when you share them with trusted friends.
And theirs do likewise when they trust you and share theirs. Every one has something to live with. And life is not always fair although that is another subject. And ‘No man is an island,’ in John Donne’s words.
