SEC - S15W3 : My life is full of challenges

I agree that the third week's challenge is different and it has made me pretty emotional. I have lived all my life and encountered various problems. But as you said they come and go. Also, as you said "The problems faced by each person will certainly be different from each other" I feel the same so I am going to give you answers to your questions with my own perceptive.

  
But before I commence answering, I would like to invite my friends @shohana1 @uzma4882 and @max-pro

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How do you understand the meaning of "life is an endless struggle" in everyday life?

  
What's the point of living if it is not an endless struggle? Or maybe I don’t consider it a point of struggle, but it still is. I look at the random incidents in this world, and I am constantly asking, “What's the meaning of life if there were no struggles? That's right. I often ask this question to myself.

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So, I feel as if I’m saying, “If life gives you sweetness, make it sweet,” but I know the reality is far more complicated than that, especially when you are in a complicated situation. Life poses endless struggles in our lives. When I’m there, I try to do something that makes me smile or laugh. I feel this way all the time. I love laughing at people who claim life to be a gift because it isn’t. Or is it? The truth is life is a struggle and we all have to face it.

Tell us about one personal challenge you are facing and your approach to it.

  
Oh, I hate it when people say things like, “Look at all you have; look at where you live! Why were you laid off?

But I am fortunate. I have freedom. I have a choice.

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But I always feel that appreciation for life has helped me deal with this ‘having to live life sucks’ thing. The passage of time has lessened the scrutiny, so that experience has made me very appreciative of the small things in life.

But what really got me was the simple beauty of the world around me and the fact that there is hope in life. And as I grew, I learned to live with struggles.

How do you overcome these challenges? Explain the concrete steps you have taken.

  
Sometimes I felt most people in the world were against me. They were like my competitors. But then I knew I loved my rivals. They made me stronger. They’d all love to see me drowning so they can give me a smug look and say how weak you are. But I always learned how to face them

I can say that every joy comes with tragedies, and still, no one can take a hint that living is the search for happiness, joy, or selfless meaning. You have to cope with what life has in store for you.

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Even if we need the bad to appreciate the good, even if we need suffering or the possibility of suffering to grow, life still is not all that bad and worth it. I never feel I should’ve never come into existence.

Sometimes I feel like life is a series of endless sufferings. Maybe the reasons for suffering are different for different people. But we live and keep living.

Is there support from those closest to you in your struggle?

  
I believe life is a gift. A purely random gift given to you by Him. And trust me it's the only real gift you'll ever have. See, we live to watch sunsets, hear wonderful music, eat delicious food, go through a hot summer or a cold winter season, and have meaningful and lovely conversations with those we love or in some cases we don't even love.

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Life is so confusing, but there is something to it. I admit, it's rather odd that anything exists at all, or it exists according to our choice. But now that we're here, and more interestingly, since we're conscious of that, it figures that we should try and learn from it. What is more important we're meant to learn. I'm not sure though, but the amount of suffering differs depending on person to person.

How do you maintain enthusiasm and motivation? Are there any special principles or values that help you stay focused on life's journey?

  
Life is cruel, maybe crueler than we can imagine. Only some of us achieve any semblance of happiness that lasts forever. You see your happiness in a loving spouse and your children who go on to be great citizens with a successful career. What else you need, is a healthy life free of disease and financial burdens. Some of us suffer through various degrees of pain as long as we live.

What is the purpose of life if there is only gain and no pain or vice versa? I feel the purpose of life is to live happily, and not just to show you exist! ‘Life is all about experiences!’ So we should embrace and accept what we get to experience in our lives. These experiences could be good or bad.

However, people don’t realize this and often feel sad or regret and curse the reasons that made them suffer, and they forget that happiness and sadness are both parts of life. There are two sides of the same coin. Isn't it? Without one, the other actually cannot exist.

Life is pointless, really, but if one wants to live this pointless existence in peace, more or less, we should drop the ego. Actually, we only have minimal desires naturally, like food, exercise, the sun, water, sleep, and a home, and that's it.

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I also feel heavy emotional pain but I don’t get the point of striving, taking care of my health, working hard, planning, etc. if we keep on failing and suffering, I realized that without suffering, I wouldn’t be able to appreciate the pleasures and blessings life has to offer.

I think the point depends on us observing or experiencing the "suffering." It can vary and be subjective based on the unique layers of the individual and how we “see” things. Having an open mind helps us see our suffering from different perspectives.

I have a strong trust in

>If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -Wayne Dyer

We all undergo an endless cycle of suffering. Many of us continue to live because we get enough joy to balance out the suffering, and some of us have people who care about us or maybe they are the reason we stay happy.