There are plenty of people who don’t desire to have any real challenges in life and just prefer that life for them be nothing other than smooth sailing because they believe that makes for a more satisfying life. While there is a lot to be said about having things go our preferred way, the bottom line is that all those who are without challenges have essentially placed themselves in a position in which they aren’t going to grow, because in order to grow, we actually need to be challenged, for in those challenges, we either forge ahead, or fall back.
The interesting thing about challenges is that some of them are forced upon us, in the sense that things that are not in our control have created personal trouble or obstacles for us, and thus we have been placed into a position in which we either are going to sink or to swim, and those then that are able to overcome their challenges are the same that have made meaningful progress to becoming a better and a more complete person. Then there are those other challenges which come from our own missteps, mistakes, paybacks, and things of that general ilk, in which, because we are the ones who have created the havoc and trouble, we are thus forced to overcome so as to extricate ourselves from that trouble, or else continue to suffer the consequences for having been wrong in the first place.
Whatever the nature of the challenge, expected or unexpected, we find that when it is presented to us, we’re going to need to come up with some sort of strategy to deal with such, directly or indirectly, and in some of these cases we will need to put off and thereby postpone the challenge until we are better prepared to constructively deal with it because sometimes we are unprepared for what we have to handle, which thus necessitates for us to examine thoroughly the various ways to successfully deal with such.
So too, recognize that in this world, we are going to be tested -- for how else would it be fair to adjudge our character as to who and what we really are, unless such is tested, time and time again. This signifies that those who avoid that which needs to be faced aren’t doing themselves any favors, because that which has to be overcome, sooner or later, will have to be met. Therefore, it is going to be better to do so forthrightly, rather than to hope that it will just disappear and vanish.
Indeed, those who make the most progress in life are the very same who intuitively recognize that life has a purpose, of which part of that purpose is to do our fair part to help make society a better place for our good participation in it, which necessitates, therefore, that we risk something of merit to gain something of merit. This, then, is our great mission in life: to rise up and to meet the challenges that we need to face, and to thus overcome them for the betterment of our souls, and for the greater good of all those with whom we congregate.