How Your Hardships Can Serve You

A Barnacle gosling must dive over 400 ft from its nest on a cliff top to reach it’s parents down below.

It’s painful to watch and listen to the squeaks. The video finally concludes: “without such a dramatic start in life, it’s unlikely that any of them would have got this far.”

What about you? How did you get this far?

Despite any narrative suggesting you should be happy and successful all the time, every single person on this platform has suffered hardship, failure, trauma, and disappointment. Very likely, the struggles contributed to your success.

The unbearable angst you experience can serve you, and others, in the future. Consider the songs born of heartbreak, nonprofit organizations created after witnessing unmet needs, inventions born of frustration, fulfilling careers after burnout, or memoirs written after an author’s struggles.

Angst, hardship, and discomfort feel brutal in the moment, yet they can also inspire future growth and positive action.

May the tension you experience today propel you forward tomorrow.