At some point in time, I think we have all contemplated... what if we had the power to change things around in our lives. What if we could just scratch out a portion of our lives and rewrite it?
Doesn’t that just seem as though it would have made everything easier; I mean we all want to know that we are in control of it all…like seriously don’t lie to yourself right here you know you are like that.
It is scary to think that we might not have the capability to make everything just perfect and all, but like let's face it…we will never be in control of anything really.
And if I am being blunt with you, why on earth would you want to rewrite a “problem” in your past if it got you to where you are today? Come ‘on, how powerful are the valleys once they get turned into mountains…pretty incredible right?
I was reading about this experiment that a famous psychologist had given a random group of people from all different backgrounds. He gave the participants a summary of a person’s life and asked them to read it over.
After reading this heart retching, struggle after struggle, valley on valley story he asked them to consider it to be the inevitable life summary of their child. The question the participants had to ask themselves was, “Where do I begin to rewrite this story?"
Obviously, a parent wants to protect and safeguard their child...ultimately this is a big decision if you are picking up what I'm putting down.
But honestly, although I can relate to some degree... I don’t have a child, yet that doesn’t mean it didn’t get me stirring in my thoughts.
I thought about my life, the things in it that maybe I wish I could change, the things and times when it seemed as though the light would never shine through at the end of the tunnel. I realized that I don’t desire smooth sailing for myself.
I wouldn’t want to limit myself from a hardship that showed me truly how to be joyful despite the things around me. Difficult circumstances are thrown our way to grow us; they are thrown our way in order to prove a point.
The point that we so carefully miss if we aren’t intentional about seeking it out because there is only a small window of opportunity that we are actually able to receive that lesson we were meant to grasp all along.
We become broken to either put us in our rightful place, to remind us of the blessings around us, or to spark something inside of us. Any of these outcomes really do elicit more to the story that continues to be written.
One of the most staggering things about your story containing both the good and the bad is that it is such a testament to your strength.
It shows that when the times were tough you pushed through. It shows that even when the world said you are down, you said that you were down but not out.
Tough times don’t equate to bad times, they simply are a part of the greater story that simply can’t be erased.
