Image by boskizzi via Flickr"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."
As I ease into middle age with all the Zen calm of a rabid squirrel, I see transitions all around. People pass, priorities change, children grow.
A little travel has taught me to suspect that people the world over face different difficulties every day, yet each of us, in our context search for joy. And we search for that joy through each other, because at the end of the day there is nothing else that truly matters.
Yes, life is difficult, and for far too many of us, life is dire.
Nonetheless, I have heard joyous laughter in the most difficult of circumstance, and pointless scorn from the blindly entitled in the easiest circumstance. Mostly from myself.
I see deeply unhappy people who have a lot more than I do, and I have witnessed true joy in the hearts of those who have nothing. Yet we all face difficulties, some of which are presented to the poor and others that are created by the rich.
The thing that ties us together, that defines our commonality, is our will to get through our difficulties.
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