Life Challenges written in 2007

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                                                        "Life Challenges"
                              Have You Faced Difficult Changes in Your Life?


As we grow older many things in our lives change. Some of these changes are good things. We change from babies to children to adults. Many people will go on to get married starting families of their own at some point.

All of this seems mundane and normal. And it is in a way. As life does run in cycle's. First we are conceived then we are born, then we grow up, and then perhaps we will get married starting the cycle over again. (of course there are those who start families without first getting married).

Anyway, for most people life is pretty much the same thing, you live, you grow, then you die. Which can seem pretty pointless at times. I mean why work so hard in life if when it's all said and done you die anyway?

Well maybe it is because when we leave this world through death we enter another world. We enter the spiritual world. This is a world that we can only get glimpses of at times in our lives. But it is in this the world where we will spend more time in, because this second world never ends.

Anyone who has ever been conceived has a soul and will live for eternity some place either heaven or hell.

But I am not really thinking of talking of time in eternity, that just kind of slipped out. I wanted to talk more about challenges in life and how to deal with these changes.

Many of us will go through many different things in life, some of us will face many hard and difficult things in life. It is how we deal with the things that come into our life that shows whether or not we are becoming bitter, indifferent, compassionate, more caring, redundant, or if we will learn to cope with life better.

Some of us will go through many hard things in this life, we may loose a child or a loved one due to a murder or a drunk driver, or even to an illness. Life is fragile at best, and uncertain for sure.

What we have and treasure today may become the things that we only recall in memory in later years.
Sometimes it is difficult to put into words just what it is we treasure. Are the things that we treasure and seek after really all that they are cracked up to be?

 I mean the more you spend or the more you buy, means the more work your going to have in finding places to store these treasures.

Probably why there are so many thriving storage centers. Because people have ran out of room for all of their treasures. But what good is all of these treasure's if you can not even get to them easily. Or can't find them because other items are cluttering up your home causing your treasures to be hidden from you.

Then there is always the possibility that someone will break in and steal your treasures, or moth and rust will corrupt your treasure or maybe even a flood will destroy your belongings.

Is there a better way? Well yes, I do think so. To me it is better to hold all of your possessions with a light hand. Any material possession can be replaced, also any lost or stolen item can be found sooner or later, after all the world is only so big. You may not be the one who finds your lost treasures but someone someday may.

Many things in life are redundant but the greatest challenge of all is to know how to let go. Not only of possessions but also of things or circumstances you can do nothing about.