Life isn’t always going to be comprised of sunshine and rainbows. Life can also be full of struggle, setbacks, and difficulty. Along with the beauty and bliss of life comes the fact that life can also be full of hardship.
However, it’s what you choose to do with your struggles that says a lot about who you are. Everyone struggles in life, but this isn’t something everyone accepts.
In this article, we’ll be talking about 10 things to remember when you’re struggling in life. Life may not always be easy, but there are certain reminders to lift your spirit along the way.
Everyone Struggles Sometimes
When you’re struggling in life, take assurance in the fact that everyone else struggles like you do. We may not have similar struggles, but it’s still a struggle nonetheless.
If struggles didn’t exist, we’d have no way to appreciate the beauty and wonders of life. As much as we’d like a world without struggle, life consists of the perfect balance between light and darkness.
In this life, happiness and joy can’t exist without struggle and pain. Even if you think you’re all alone in your struggle, you’re really not. Everyone is struggling in life, but some just hide it better than others or they just learn to deal with their problems.
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10 Things to Remember When You’re Struggling in Life
1. Life isn’t always comprised of happiness
No matter how much you want everything to be perfect, life doesn’t work that way.
Life doesn’t always work out the way you want. There’s going to be darkness and pain, but there’s always going to be happiness, too.
2. Struggles don’t last forever
The thing about struggles is that it only lasts for a certain period of time. No matter how much it hurts, it doesn’t last for the entirety of your life.
It gets better, but you just have to believe that it will. It can be the easiest thing to believe that life is an eternal loop of struggle, but it doesn’t work that way at all.
3. You’re not alone in your struggles
When struggling in life, you’re never alone, even if your pain might have convinced you that you are.
Everyone struggles in life and believe it or not, the people you love are there for you in your season of struggle. Pain might convince you that you have to bear your pain alone, but the reality is much different.
4. Use your struggle as an opportunity
This might be the hardest thing to grasp on this list, but struggling is an opportunity for growth. It might hurt, but you can always use your struggle to learn something from it.
Instead of dwelling on it, you can use it as a stepping stone to learn and rise above your struggle
5. Struggle helps you become stronger
When struggling in life, you always have a choice. You can either dwell on it and let it get the best of you, or you can use it as a stepping stone to becoming stronger.
It might be painful, but it’s also teaching you a lot about courage and strength.
6. Don’t run away from your feelings
One of the most common mistakes people do when struggling in life is they shut down their emotions.
While doing this may seem better at first, but the aftermath will be much worse. Instead, let yourself feel your pain and devastation, and only then will you be able to move forward.
By making peace with your emotions, you’ll manage your struggles better.
7. Everything happens for a reason
Even if absolutely nothing makes sense as of this moment, know that everything does happen for a reason. It may not be a reason you comprehend, but it’s still a reason nonetheless.
Trust in that reason, and use your struggle as a way to improve on yourself.
8. Focus on what you have
While it’s the easiest thing to be mad at the world for everything you’re struggling on, acknowledge that there are so many things you can be grateful for.
Instead of focusing on what you lost and what hurts, you have a choice to focus on what you already have.
9. Change your mindset
Your struggles are valid, but your mind can often multiply the struggles that you feel, making it more painful and unbearable. If you want to overcome your struggles, you have to learn to change your mindset.
The moment you learn to control your thoughts instead of letting it control you, this is when you become stronger.
10. Struggle is simply a part of life
At the end of the day, struggles are inevitable and there’s nothing you can do to stop this. We’re all going to struggle in life or feel lost at times, whether you like it or not.
However, struggle is always what makes the reward much more satisfying. In achieving success, the struggle is what makes accomplishing your goals more worthwhile.
Overcoming Your Struggles in Life
No matter what you may think, that pain isn’t going to last forever. It’s only going to last until the pain becomes bearable to move forward, day by day.
Overcoming your struggles aren’t a walk in the park, but they’re inevitable. They’re also what make you more brave and courageous.
Without struggle and pain, you’d never appreciate the things you have in life.
We often take things and people in our life for granted and without struggle, we’d never appreciate them. Overcoming your struggles isn’t impossible, but it certainly says a lot about your character in how you choose to overcome these struggles.
Final Thoughts
struggling in life is completely normal. Life is a perfect balance of both struggle and happiness, and it’s what makes life so mysterious. Without struggle, achieving certain things wouldn’t be as satisfying.
Even if most times we question why things have to happen the way they did, just trust in the fact that everything happens for a reason.
Struggles may be difficult, but they make you stronger and braver. Struggles are what make you grow into someone better. Share your thoughts in the comments below: