The hard thing about doing hard things is just that, they are hard. This past week I feel I have had many experiences about conquering difficult tasks. Every time I am faced with something that is hard my first thought is how can I make this easier? Or how can I avoid this thing all together? And in many cases there is no answer to either of those questions. I, like everyone in this world can not avoid the hard things that come my way. I always remember one of my fathers favorite saying, one that he told me time and time again while growing up. He said, "I do hard things or things I don't want to do every day." There is more and more truth to that statement as I grow up. This blog is a perfect example. I don't find myself dying each week to write this thing. I know I have to do it in order to receive a grade that I am happy with though. I have learned that we face things that we don't want to do, and we do them so we can do the things that we do want to do.
Moving forward I will work on my attitude towards such things. Starting is often the hardest part, but once we start it is more times than not easier than we thought it would be. I will also except that the journey of life is not bliss. There are times when we have to push through the things that we don't want to do, so we may enjoy the things that we do want to do.
Your dad sounds just like my dad, though above what you mentioned, he makes sure to remind us that things only get harder. So far, I have found that to be true as well, and I almost dread the future, but then I look back on what seemed to be the hard things in life before, and I can see how much I changed for the better from them and what I learned. When I look back, the hard things don't seem quite as hard, because I can see what I gained, and how worth it going through those things was. I've started to look at current hard things with this concept in mind, and it gives me a much better attitude during the hard times.
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