So this can be considered a low point right? This year has been ripe with multiple stumbling blocks that have seemed to just follow each other just as you’re getting over the last one. 2014 has tested your patience, your resolve, and your tenacity at each and every turn across the previous 12 months. Basically, 2014 just sucked didn’t it?
But who said that having a bad year was necessarily a bad thing? I understand that it’s definitely bad to find yourself nearing a mental breakdown while figuring out what obscure beverage combination to order at Starbucks. I understand that needing to let yourself cry just to embrace your slumber isn’t usually your method of choice. But as the old proverb goes, “a smooth seas does not make for skillful sailors.”
Yes, it’s cliched beyond death and into every afterlife imaginable. Yes, it’s as inaccurate as shooting a rubber band gun across a football field. Yes, it has been uttered more than the word “YOLO” at a high school party in the northeast. But what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger. (This does not apply to near death situations that leave you horribly scarred.)
The human body and mind is the most adaptable, biologically created, construct on the Earth. No computer has the processing power that the brain possesses in just one hemisphere. No animal or machine can create internal cures for as many maladies as the human body encounters. Which means that any problem you face won’t be a problem the next time you encounter it.
Just because you couldn’t handle the problem during these past few months doesn’t mean that a solution is out of your grasp. It means that you’ll be prepared to deal with it the next time the problem arises. Even if you don’t feel quite up to the task, the tools are still available to help solve the problem but only if you chose to utilize them.
2014 was not a year of successes. That being said, don’t consider it a year of stark failures either but a year of growth and personal development. You become a stronger human being once you overcome your problems. 2014 was the year of experiencing those problems and 2015 could be the year of overcoming them.
Look forward to the new year, not as an escape from the tribulations of the past one but as a personal challenge to overcome and master. This doesn’t mean that you have to try and make 2015 the greatest year of your life to date. Just make the big changes where you can and the subtle alterations everywhere else. This year has your name written all over it. Go make it yours.
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