Let's Talk: Flowers only grow after a Storm

These past three months have been rather interesting to me. Well to be more precise, the twenty-first year of my life has been the most interesting and challenging by a mile. Interesting in the sense of being unable to comprehend what's going on most of the time. Challenging because as soon as I find myself ready to confront and push through these issues, I get blind sided yet again. Each time these problems become difficult enough to the point where I find myself completely unequipped to handle them. I then end up needing to devote all my energy towards these issues draining myself in the process. Only after I work through them do I remember something key. Flowers only grow after a storm.

Challenges in life present us with three major options. We can cower, float, or confront them. Each of these options can be rather painful in their own regard, it's dependent on how you are willing to approach them. The first of these three options is theoretically the easiest approach. Being too afraid to make a move is something I discuss often. It's easy, it's safe, and it's the path of least resistance. If we let the fear of failing control us and instead choose to cower, it's easy to be okay with. We can't figure out how much something truly hurts us if we never allow it to hurt us.

Possible the worst route of the three is choosing to float. Choosing to float is neither living in fear nor building the courage to confront the pain. There is no growth nor loss in the process of floating. It can be viewed as a safety if you live in between, but its difficult. It's unfair to even consider this option living, rather living with this option simply means you are existing. This path is what often leads to a lack of purpose or in worse cases depression.

The most difficult route of the three ends up being the confrontational one. This route is something I discuss often, taking the leap of faith. It's being prepared to stumble and slide on your face towards your goals. It's climbing to the peak of a mountain and relishing in the success. Only to realize the success was temporary and if you had opened your eyes, you'd see you only reached a checkpoint of a much larger mountain. You might dedicate yourself to climbing up to the next peak of the mountain only to realize there's an even larger one a mile away. The only way to reach the next mountain is by crossing an unstable bridge. My peak theory and this method of challenging is what life is all about.

Flowers only grow after a storm, should be interpreted as learning to embrace the rain. You need to embrace the hail, the struggles, the thunder, the pain, the winds, and the sorrow. If life struggled to grow each time their was a storm then our world would have died years ago. Remember life always finds a way. Why can't you?