Adversity

Have you ever felt like you were lost in the middle of the desert without water?  I feel that way right now.  It's hard to deal with life especially when you've tried your hardest to prepare and do something the right way and nobody seems to have noticed. It can make you feel like you're left alone without anything or anyone to help you.  Almost makes you want to give up and shrink away in life, doesn't it?

DON'T DO IT!  Please listen to me now, very carefully.  As the old saying goes, "... things happen for a reason."  That desert may not really be a place without water.  Even if you begin doubting yourself, don't give up.  If you need to reach out to a friend, someone or something to give you inner strength, peace and the ability to keep going on...  THERE'S SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THERE!

You've got to learn to believe in yourself again especially in the face of adversity.  I love this quote because it brings a picture to this story and helps me see something clearly when my emotions cloud my senses just like today.  Sometimes something a person has written, painted or created can say more than a live person.

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”  


 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can find a help in books, song lyrics, music, artwork, movies and even on line like right here for instance.  Think about the quote above.  It gives me HOPE.  Let me know what helps you.

Just imagine being in that desert and worrying yourself to death about running out of water and dying of thirst.  That thought gives me the creeps.  I sure wouldn't want to die of thirst, would you?  Maybe those kind of fears and doubts stop me from going out into a new place like the desert and enjoying it.  But if you know there's a well out there in the middle of the desert and how to get to it, you might not worry about not having running out of water and be better prepared to deal next time you wander on out there!  You might just be able to find the beauty of the desert too, if you're not worried about the things that make you doubt yourself about being out there.

So, lighten up and take a cool drink of water from the deep well of life EVEN if it is in the middle of a desert!  There's someone or something that's talks about having been exactly in the same spot you  are worrying about right now and preventing you from going on and living life to it's fullest.

Be talking to you soon.  Kristyn Z!