Maybe you’ve gotten to the point where you’re on the path to where you want to be. Maybe you’ve found a good job doing what you love, or you’re in the right relationship, or you’re taking the steps toward your goals. You’re headed toward that plan or that future that you want. You’re doing it. Now everything should be smooth, simple, easy, right?
I’ve realized that no matter where you’re at in your life, even if it is on the “right path”, it’s not going to be easy. Even if you’re in the place you’re meant to be and you’re expecting things to be perfect every step of the way, it’s never going to be the case. Life is never going to be perfect.
So you’ve reached your goal, you’re doing that job, you feel like you’re becoming the person you’re meant to be… So why is it still so hard? Why are there still so many challenges, so many struggles? You thought everything would change, that suddenly life would become easy.
Perfection Doesn’t Exist
The reality is that no matter how good things are, you’re not going to be in a state of bliss every single day. That’s never going to be the case. That’s not how life works.
What we expect to happen almost always doesn’t happen. We can’t plan or map out our lives. Our ideas, our desires, our feelings – are changing all the time. Maybe at one moment we think we want something, and then we realize we don’t. That’s okay. That’s part of learning and living.
The point is that life is never going to be perfect, there’s no point where things just become simple. There’s always going to be the ups and downs – even when we are in that “good place” in our life. We have to recognize the fact that we are humans – humans who experience vast ranges of emotions and thoughts and who are constantly evolving and changing along with everyone and everything around us.
So not every day is going to be perfect. It’s never going to be. No matter how much we want it to be, things will not fall into place in exactly the way we want at the exact moment that we want. The moment we recognize that, we can give up that expectation and accept that some days are simply going to be more of a struggle for us. We can find the beauty in the unexpected moments, and accept the challenges that come our way without allowing them to break us.
Struggles Become Opportunities for Growth
Life will always be presenting us with more challenges, more roadblocks to our success. The important part is what we do in the face of those challenges – do we give up at the first sign of danger or do we continue to overcome them and come out of them stronger?
Recognizing our own difficulties and our own struggles opens us up to growth. It allows us to continue learning and developing into a better person. We’re going to have bad days, and lots of them. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just a part of life. Those bad days, those struggles, they come to remind us of all the good we have and all of the opportunities we have to continue growing.
So… not every day is going to be a good day, and that’s okay.
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