Tolerate Things That Slap You Down

What I want to achieve with this article is something I have been dealing with in my many consultations with people over the years. People who have lived through dire human situations, I have found, are mostly too reluctant to speak out about the details concerning their circumstances.

As humans, It is our common destiny, for the believer and agnostic alike, to sooner or later, transcend the temporal and enter the realm of pure energy, namely death. In a way, sharing that which will eventually become inevitable, will make the journey a more familiar one somehow.

EXTREME CALAMITOUS SITUATIONS

A wise man once said when asked what we as human beings can control in life, if at all, and as you well know, life happens, pretty much as nature pleases but there is one thing that repeatedly stuns us and leaves us breathless and that is, how uniquely different people react to extreme and calamitous situations.

WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE

So, yes indeed, there is one thing we all can control, we can control our attitude towards aversion, dismay, horror and pain, something, like “turning the other cheek.’ or saying, Father forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.

Or perhaps we can just be like legendary actor and philanthropist Kirk Douglas at 100 years old;