Dealing with Hardships in Life

Dealing with Hardships in Life

I envy plants and for a long time I have admired to be at least a Eucalyptus tree surviving in the middle of a thick forest. At least for it, it gets everything for free plus an additional care from the owner. But after a thorough thought, I realise that if I was a tree, I would be like an animal being fed to be slaughtered or sold after accumulating a lot of fat and weight. I then get back to my rightful senses and embrace my sorrows and tribulations. God is the greatest indeed, imagine the art, knowledge and enlightenment he used while creating earth and everything in it. Sometimes I am filled with so much joy and fulfilment as well when I watch Entrepreneurs of all kinds of industries who innovate and create great life transforming and sustainable ideas. Have you ever looked at water flow in a river, it is filled with life and flows freely without being diverted by any obstacles no matter what it finds along its way. What that does is give fresh food and air to the fish and all the animals in the waters. I indeed can't stop wandering amazements this world has for humanity and how nature makes us feel so blessed and at times when faced with challenges unlucky.

I think my childhood was the best despite being in a humble household with a vulnerable mother who was a victim to domestic violence. I think I was the most loved of all my five brothers. When I was little I remember, I was nicknamed Junior because I was named after my Grandfather Henry Kakooza may ''His soul Rest in Eternal Peace''. I really I admire my childhood because it gave me a life that I will always regard the best of my time on earth. ''Today I have felt like writing something just to start a series of articles that are deep and entirely looking at drawing lessons I have personally about life.

All my life I have been so good to people, that I think I haven't lived for myself at all. The only time I remember living was when my mother could hold me in her hands and the love she showed me while growing up. Unfortunately after a negative change in her life coming from a marriage that she had spent 28 years in but coming out without anything but an empty heart and late night cries. Let me save that story for another day. During my time at school and back at home, I think I exhibited the best humour ever in my life till today. The many projects have worked and the different lives I have transformed from my community but still some people don't appreciate what good people we are.

Today I have felt like writing three ways that one can use while dealing with hardships in life and sometimes they are as a result of diverse situation but today let us use people as our subject, people who want to pollute what a good person you might be or what a good mentality from a good background you might have. Sometimes of nature, plants and animals and the lakes and rivers are good examples of how a good life should be but also become destructive once approached with a bad temperament. Am trying to make my mind free to write occasionally my understanding about life and the believe in a better humanity. Below are the three ways of dealing with hardships in life:-

1. Take time & Think. God the Almighty gave us the greatest gift in life which is the mind. Ones mind can make them or break, it can make them anything they think they want to be. There is a saying that goes that, you attract what you. When posed with a trying moment in life what do you do? Let's say for example your shipment arrives and you don't have money to pay for the government taxes or maybe your most valuable investor withdraws their investment. I find so much trust in the power of the mind. Once entrusted, one can break free from any prison regardless of which genre it falls in or the direction it takes in your life. So sharpen your mind to be your leverage when challenged. ''Between a Response & A Reaction, there is a Space''.
2. Act on the matter. Sometimes our minds are filled with a lot of unfinished business that accumulate due to the lack of action. Maybe your idea or mine is the best, but what do we often do, we sit on the result of our thought and continuously keep piling stuff upon us. Am definitely a victim of procrastination sometimes and it has costed me a fortune. Sometimes, the network I needed the most to get me throw a trying moment in life. This kind of response to issues is everywhere not only in business but also in politics etc. When you think about something that works, get to work. ''Be proactive''.
3. Evaluate your response. Sometimes we use the wrong medicine on the right disease, after an action, its important to check out if the intervention was the best for the situation. Very many times we don't study our approach to the situation yet it can help us make things better instead of making them more worse. A case in point, a husband sends a photo to his daughter instead of his wife. What does he do, he keeps in denial forever even after an action of running very fast to delete the picture. You deleted the picture but the picture is still fresh in the eyes of the daughter. The best way is to go to them after the entire saga and hear what they have to say PERIOD.

Maybe I have said much, maybe I have made sense maybe I have not but all in all, dealing with hardships starts within ones mind and once not attended to, it destroys all the goods things and dreams one has for their life. The best human being who attracts happiness always is created during childhood and destroyed by the present. Always remember that.

Am alone when I cry, My hardships challenge me but keep me strong.

Henry