One Day...

Sigmund Freud said a very profound thing, among the many profound things he said; "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

Those are very true. Have you had a chance to look back at your life and realize that the hardest times also produced some of the hardest lessons in your life but also some of the happiest memories? Young couples starting out may have not had the money to pay their electric bills but they made do when the lights were shut off and lit a couple of candles and had a romantic evening holding hands and figuring out a way to get their lights turned back on.

Hard times define us as people. How we handle them will show our true characters. Some of the strongest lifelong friendships and relationships have been forged through the survival of hard times through teamwork and helping one another. This goes for hard financial times, hard relationship times and hard health times. They will all define not only you but those around you and it's easy to someone's true colors by how they act when the cards have been all laid out on the table.

If you're in a hard time right now, try to look beyond the rough circumstances that surround you and realize that you are being taught a very valuable lesson in dealing with life and people and along with that - creating beautiful memories that you'll smile when you look back and see how far you've come.
 posted by Friends of Leah