Enjoying life during a difficult period means you must be crazy.
I will show you that it is possible – and you don’t have to be crazy.
Practical Approach 🛠️
Difficulties and pain should not be classified by the mind as drama, a special period, or something to escape from quickly and at all costs.
It is time to learn something new and important that you have not understood before – and that is why you are experiencing pain and difficulties.
Obstacles are a unique CHANCE to arm yourself with another solution so that next time you will not have pain and difficulties.
Real-Life Examples 🌍
- COVID-19 Pandemic – brought fear and loss to many, but others used it for new business ventures, new skills, and rethinking priorities.
- Marcus Aurelius – “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
- Mountaineers’ Wisdom – the most valuable life lessons often come not at the summit, but during the descent in a storm.
The Practical View 🎯
No drama. There is combat training.
Difficult moments are happy occasions for:
- Strengthening
- Training the will
- Forming habits
- Building resilience
- In short — tempering
Avoiding Reality Is Not the Answer 🚫
If you try not to pay attention to problems or pain, you are trying to abstract yourself from reality – which means being inadequate, unreasonable, or self-deceptive.
If you still manage to do it, you have become a virtuoso of escape, some kind of Himalayan monk.
Remember Viktor Frankl – even in a concentration camp, a person can find meaning and joy.
Aivazovsky’s “Stormy Sea at Night“ (1849)
– the storm crushes, it is monstrous, but it is precisely what gives grandeur to the moment and to the path in nature.
Two Key Questions ❓
- How can the mind stop classifying difficulties and pain as something dramatic, crushing, and depressing?
- How can pain and difficulties be turned into your solutions and lessons so that you do not sink into their sands a second time?
Shifting the Mindset 🔄
To switch your mindset, repeat to yourself and find examples in this sense:
Life does not bring difficulties and pain as exceptions to be avoided.
On the contrary:
- Life is a sea of obstacles and pain 🌊
- When they are absent, these are strange exceptions or the feeling of routine that comes from our experience and accumulated strength.
New difficulties and pain should be expected with a wide-open heart ❤️ and even sought out – because they will more quickly provide their lessons and experience.
In the future, similar cases will be bypassed with ease and new opportunities!
💡 If this sounds unbelievable, perhaps you are already a supporter of drama, not of solutions.
Gaining from Pain 📈
To benefit from experienced pain, twists of fate, and unpleasant surprises, you need to be in a practical mindset:
- Free yourself from illusions
- Make clearer distinctions
- Pay more attention to details revealed by new experience – details you could not see before
Living Without Escape 🌅
If you succeed in this, alongside all the natural heavy changes, pains, and obstacles, you will be able to live your life without relying on intoxication, madness, or escape.
Authors: Ivan Sapundzhiev and Ralitsa Atanasova
