How do we survive the relentless challenges of today’s rapidly shifting society — economic instability, misguided norms, crumbling systems? How about unemployment, moral decay, rising living costs, the daily hustle through chaotic city streets, and an unending barrage of societal unrest?
How do we cope with intolerance at work, at home, in institutions, or even among trusted relationships? The seemingly avoidable obstacles that trap us in an endless maze. The blaring horns of impatient drivers on congested roads. The repugnant, raspy calls of bus conductors and the fumes from their carbon-monoxide-spewing vehicles — it’s pressure, nonstop.
And then, after all that, we retire to the cacophony of power generators from the neighbourhood, hoping for a restful night. Otherwise, we’re doomed in the suffocating heat of a pitch-black room, to be attended to by tiny tormentors as our only companions — MOSQUITOES, armed with straws for proboscises.
How do we handle it all without creasing our “white-, blue-, or yellow-collar” shirts? Without breaking a sweat? WITHOUT GOING INSANE?
Is this MASTERY at its finest… or INSANITY at its most “subtle”?
A writer once said, “Insanity is the dark/night times of our lives, and Sanity, the light/daytimes.” In other words, moments of uncertainty, confusion, pain, disappointment, fear, and shame are our Insane moments. In contrast, moments of joy, victory, health, and happiness are our Sane moments.
Daily, we slip, consciously or unconsciously, between these emotional extremes. Our level of Emotional Mastery — our ability to navigate and manage our emotions — dictates how long we linger in these dark moments. Whether we’re briefly pulled into emotional turbulence or get stuck there, our level of emotional mastery will often determine whether we resurface stronger or are left behind in a blooming garden of self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and sooner, find shelter under the well-shaded canopy of the tree of SUICIDE.
But we always have a CHOICE!
We can CHOOSE to survive, RISE, and stay above the challenges.
We can CHOOSE to make moments of sanity our steady habitat.
We can CHOOSE progress and emotional resilience, even amidst the chaos. These choices are within our control.
The CHOICE to try again — at a relationship, a marriage, a business idea, a skill, a career path, or at whatever endeavour — even at the risk of failing or falling again. And we don’t stop trying until we turn the challenge into Triumph, the pain into Power and the passion into Purpose.
CHOICE, is the greatest POWER that you have as a human being. But this power can only be activated when you wield your “choices” optimally and progressively until you become more confident of and courageous with them.
So, no matter how many times you fall or fail, CHOOSE to BOUNCE BACK, STAY UP, and NEVER give up until YOU WIN! Even if you don’t win, ensure that you finish STRONG — because when you have finished strong, YOU HAVE WON!
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Cheers,
StephREDD.