A Medal for My Problems?

Isolation is the best strategy predators use to kill prey in the animal Kingdom. In our civilized social World, we are often the tools to our own misfortunes. We deliberately isolate ourselves when the going gets tough and make ourselves easy target for 'the enemy'. This is because far too often we believe our challenges are unique and cannot be compared to others.

In reality, and when brought to the fore, it takes just a few hours in conversation with others to quickly realize just how terribly everyone else is faring. The challenges we think we have suddenly don't seem so special anymore and there is even empathy to the plight of others while we focus on overcoming ours.

Realizing challenges are nothing special is important I believe in overcoming them. Granted, some of us do fare significantly worse than others and unfortunate things do happen at unexpected times. Be that as it may, what then is the alternative to simply moving forward regardless of how hard life hits?

This may be harsh but reminding ourselves that our challenges are nothing special may just be the only way to move past them. We need to instead seek the help of others in guiding us on our way to escape.