"tough challenges reveal our strengths
and weaknesses."
Adversity helps us discover
who we are.Hardships can often lead us to
examine who we are and to question what
is important in life. In fact, people who have
experienced seriously adverse events
report that they were positively changed by
their negative experiences.
One of the questions from my SAT practice book.
After reading this, it makes me recall the recent
disasters in Myanmar and China where
thousands of lives are lost through this incident.
Without adversity, will we continue to live in
complacency, to find that we are always
safe and comfortable? Especially so when
we're living in Singapore, everything is
almost at its acme.People who fall sick
can almost always be cured by the latest
technology or medicine.
The value of life seemed to have been altered.
Life "seems" to be in our control because
there is always a cure,therefore death
doesnt come to us that easily than
other people living elsewhere who
doesnt have such facilities. The mentality
might be like: " we're gonna get well sooner
or later, a matter of time, no big deal."
When we faced the natural disasters
like those of Myanmar and China,
how much does the cost of lives
really affect us? Have we been so
at ease and comfortable
in our own lives that we've became
indifferent to our surroundings?
Have we learnt all these while to just
mind our own business as long as
it doesnt affect us? Will humans be
"stagnant"-without improvement,
without suffering?
If all these didnt happen at all,
will we continue to feel that life is
still in our control? Most likely we will, for only
when we are faced with sufferings will it
challenges us and reveal to us that
we are only humans afterall;someone
out there has greater power and
control of our lives.
To what extend can something alert
and wake humans up from their
comfort zone? Sadly to say,I personally feel
that it's adversity like this, lost of
millions of lives through
natural disasters, which has ability
to impact and awaken us
so much to question the true meaning
of life and treasure it as well.
If we never ever experience unhappiness,
how can we ever understand what is true
happiness?
If ever,all our achievements are gone,
what is one thing that keeps us alive?
It is the relationship that keeps us
alive, the hope and love of family
and friends around us. What if we don't
have our family here already?
As we can see,help and comfort
are shown in tough times like this-
there is still love in humankind.
Adversity helps us to question the meaning
and importance of life.It also helps us to
treasure life and people around us.Imagine
if we're always in the good times, we'll
sometime or somehow take for
granted the things in our life-
people, health, our ability to breath.
After perservering through this suffering,
it makes us even stronger
be it in the emotional or mental aspect,
for a saying goes:"what doesnt kill us
makes us stronger ".
Just like a tea bag, if it doesnt go through
hot water, you never know how strong
it can hold itself. However, if
we choose to sit there
and grumble about why bad things
happen to us, there can be no
precious lessons
like: life is fragile and vulnerable,
not in our hands,
cherish every person with us now and
count our blessings. Everything happens
for a purpose though we may not always understand.
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