The Lost Art Of Smiling During Hardship
You march forward. You keep doing so for a seemingly eternal time.
Everything is smooth. So smooth that you have lacked the needed awareness to stop and assess.
You’ve been drifting away on the river of success while forgetting that a hungry waterfall is waiting for you on the front end.
It’s too late. Here comes the plunge!
You are now drowning, deep, battered by the currents. You suddenly find yourself barely breathing. You are submerged and swimming in despair.
Some will go through this sort of experience with a sense of worry and inner disturbance. They are scared, anxious and hopeless.
After all, they barely see the shore, let alone what is beyond.
Whereas others will go about the obstacle in front of them with a sense of ease, almost lightness, like a dragonfly skimming the surface of a pond.
And a few of them will accomplish a more significant feat: smiling.
Smiling not because they are happy.
Not because they are content with their situation and outcome.
Not because they know what to do next.
Not because they are confident that everything will go right for them, the way they imagined it.
