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3 Words That Could Make All The Difference
“Life is difficult”. I recall reading those first words from Scott Peck’s ‘The Road Less Travelled’ and breathing a sigh of sweet relief. Finally, someone who understood.
As simple as those words were, up until that point I could not adequately articulate what I had experienced and felt in life.
Upon reading those three sweet words, I was understood and understood all at once.
Life Is Meant To Be Difficult
Perhaps one of the biggest things any parent can do for their child is to help them to learn that life is meant to be difficult. How could it not be? We are creatures of free will with the ability to make choices from the moment we are born. Our lives are an accumulation of hundreds of choices made every single day. When you consider this it’s easy to see how life could be difficult.
With every choice we make, we have to live with knowing that it is ultimately we who are responsible for the quality of the outcomes and our lives as a result.
Talk about pressure.
Of course, there is a beautiful counter-balance to that because we also get to enjoy life when we’ve learned how to…
