_____The Gain Within Pain____
“Every problem or difficulty you face contains the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit.” –Napoleon Hill
Maybe I am odd but I got used to this viewpoint when I was young. Yes, there may be exceptions. Yet the vast majority of the time I have found that our troubles hold the beginnings of our greatness, the nuclei of our success.
Think of the caterpillar. Great energy and effort go into the creation of a cocoon or chrysalis. The creature goes from daily foraging, eating and avoiding predators to spending weeks cooped up and inactive as the painfully slow processes of metamorphosis take place. If it has thoughts does it grow impatient day by day?
Ah, but all that work and waiting one day results in a complete transformation. In one final struggle and momentous effort, our earthbound worm frees itself from its bonds to finally take flight. We cannot know the thoughts, if any, of a caterpillar. Nonetheless, it is clear that process that transforms an awkward worm into an elegant butterfly or a moth involves sweat and difficulty. Yet that labour is the beginning of greatness for the creature as it leaves behind its former limitations.
What are you facing today? Is a slow tedious process teaching you patience? Is a difficult and stressful situation instructing you on perseverance? Is an interaction with a harsh and difficult person coaching you on tolerance and kindness? Is exhaustion and despair showing you the need to say ‘no’ others and to address your own welfare? Look at your struggles. They are not merely curses and deficits. If you stay open to possibilities then you will see within your trials the buds of possible metamorphosis. If you let it, your patient overcoming of a situation can literally transform you to soar beyond your current existence and expectations.
©2017 Scott D. Wilson
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