Contest | "Challenges of life"

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She earns 30k [75 steems] as a teacher monthly. From this salary she earns, she does the following;

All these are inside this 30k she receives monthly. Is she facing a challenge? Yes, a serious challenge. When I see village people take up challenges they'll not be able to face, I become angry. You barely have enough to feed yourself and one child, but still, you aren't contented. You want more children and that's how you see them giving birth to 7 children when they can't even afford to feed themselves.

They carry challenges of a lifetime on their shoulders, challenges they won't be able to bear. I call this act wickedness. When we face challenges in life, we sometimes look back as the challenges may be too much on us or we may sometimes ask why? God why me? Challenges come in different forms and ways. Most of the challenges we face like difficult times hard to deal with is actually important in our very own lives. Why?

In everything we do, we must face a challenge at some point. There's no one on earth that hasn't faced a challenge. It is part of us. To make money may seem to be a challenge even to spend the money. Both the rich and the poor face challenges but in different ways.

Challenges are very important in our lives because without challenges, we can't achieve anything in life. The challenge may be big or small but at least it's present. Challenges prepares is for things yet to come and help us build three important qualities - resilience, endurance and patience. The hierarchy goes this way.

It is only when we face challenges and endurance them we get to see the fulfilment of our hope. If at some point in time when facing these challenges we stray or give us, our hope of things getting better may also stray and we may not get to see it. It's just like writing consistently on steemit without getting votes. This is a challenge but as you endure this challenge and keep on writing knowing fully well that one day you'll see a notification of good upvote, you will get to see this. This challenge process has helped me on steemit.

Like I said in the challenge process, you need endurance when faced with these challenges or you may back out or give up easily. For example, you're told to cross a bridge that has a good heap of soldier ants from beginning to end without running. If you can cross this bridge to the other side, you'll be given a million dollars.

This money serves as your hope that after crossing the bridge, you'll get the money. Soldier ants are dangerous ants but not poisonous that can cause us pain. If we allow the pain override us instead of enduring knowing that you have a bright hope, you may not get to claim that prize.

So in every challenge, we need strength otherwise the things that serves as challenges to us would weigh us down. Just view your challenges as your contestant. I you don't do everything possible to face it with strength and endurance, you may get overwhelmed by the challenge and give up in life.

To prepare for a challenge we need to first of all have in mind that we are don't know how these challenges would come but they would come. Like when I got admitted in school, I never knew I would face challenges that demands my life but my mind was prepared that I would face it. So preparing your mind for challenges to come your way which is a must will give you strength and you'll not be taken unawares.

Fear of not being able to make it allow a lot of people quit and to quit means you won't see the fulfilment of your hope. For instance in school. We all got admitted but not everyone graduated from school. Why? These ones that graduated weren't able to face the challenges the school system presented before them.

These challenges could be failure, stress from school, academic imbalance, finances and the likes of them. The fear of not resolving these challenges especially failure make a lot of people give up and they end up losing out in life. So we shouldn't allow our fears, fears of not being able to face our challenges hold us down.

On a daily basis, we face the following challenges.

These are the major challenges we face groomed as life challenges. I'll talk about how I'm facing one of these challenges - Academic challenge.

When I first got admitted into the university, happiness was my name. I knew nothing about hardship and struggle not until the day I started attending lectures. I struggled to do almost everything and I tend to return home at night, tired. I'll attend lectures in the day and tutorials at night.

	When I matriculated into the university

At some point, finances becsme a problem of which I hard to fight it using the money I hard from steemit. Later on, the projects carried out seem to stress me like never before. I'll sit down and think of my life at times. There are times you'll be stressed out the whole day and you feel your brain bustling. To attend lectures became a challenge.

	feeling tired but won't tire out
	struggling with school projects
	facing challenges in school

I started drifting away not until I asked myself: What's the point now? I started I should be able to finish what I started and through endurance, I've been able to face my Challenges with hope they things will get better. I invite @usoro01, @emmyjnr and @blessingogah-1 to participate.

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Cc,
@aviral