Thanks GOD for Life being Difficult.

ONLY DEAD FISH SWIM WITH THE STREAM

Life is difficult. Thanks God it is so. If it was all fluffy and easy we wouldn't be tested, tried, forged in the fire of life. We would not grow or learn or change, or have a chance to rise above ourselves. If life were a series of lovely days, we would soon get bored. If there was no rain, then there would not be any feeling of great joy when it finally stopped and we could go to the beach. If it was all easy we could not get stronger.

So be thankful it is a struggle some of the time, and recognize that only dead fish swim with the stream. For the rest of us there will be times when it is an uphill, upstream struggle. We will have to battle waterfalls, weirs and raging torrents. But we have no choice. We have to keep swimming or get swept away. And each flick of our tail, each surge of ours fins makes us stronger and fitter, leaner and happier.

There is a statistic that suggests that for a lot of men, retirement is a really bad idea. Lots of them die within a relatively short time of handing their briefcase. I don't know if this affects women just as adversely. Haha. They have ceased to swim against the current and get swept away. Keep swimming, little fish, keep swimming.

Try to see each setback as a chance to improve. They make you stronger, not weaker. You only get burdened with as much as you can carry - although I do appreciate that at times it may seem as if it's a whole lot more. And of course the struggles don't come to an end, but there are lulls in between times - backwaters where we can rest for a while and enjoy the moment before the next obstacle gets thrown our way.

And that's what life is, what it is meant to be; a series of struggles and lulls. And whatever situation you are in now, it is going to change. So what are you in? Lull or struggle? Rain or going to the beach? Learning or enjoying? Dead fish or healthy salmon?

YOU DECIDE.