Somethings just never seem to work out the way you plan. You face trials and hardships everyday! Some are big problems, and some are small. But no matter their size or importance, you still can get something out of it. But how do you learn from something that is hard? How do you learn from your mistakes? What if you just keep making the same mistakes over and over again!? How do you change? How do you turn your trials into blessings? Is that even possible?
I believe that every trial can be turned into a learning experience. Every time we are faced with a mountain that is harder to climb then the last one, we just have to keep climbing until we reach the top. It may seem like a far and long ways away, but if you just keep looking forward and up, and never look backwards and down, you will make it to the top. You will over come your trail and you will learn the lesson you needed to learn. I know that was a dumb analogy, but it makes sense if you think about it.
It is hard to go through life not knowing simple things, not knowing why you are here, not knowing what you are going to do in life, who you will become, where you will live, what you will do... Sometimes, I know I do, we feel lost. We feel like we have no where to go, no one to talk to, and we feel like we are alone in the world. And maybe we are. Maybe we will have to stand alone... Maybe we will have to make a stand against a friend, a brother, a parent, and go against what everyone around us is doing--what they say is 'good' and do what we know inside is the right thing to do. We may loose a friendship. We might have to let a relationship go, but those are trials that we need to be willing to face, to go through, if we are to find out who we really are. You can't live someone else's life and expect to become yourself. You have to find that out for yourself.
No one can tell you what to do, or how to be. You must decide that for your self. Being out of High School and starting my life as an adult has been hard. You loose the circle of friends that you grew up with. I know I feel alone a lot now. I feel like no one understands, like I am just another person out in this huge world. I know its not true, but when you go from day to day doing the exact same thing, it gets old... not having a close friend, a boyfriend, even just someone to go to with a problem that you want advice on-- its hard, but everyone is going to go through it in life. Its a trial we will all face eventually.
So are trials good? Yes, I believe that they will make you stronger in the end. You may not think so while you are facing them, but down the road, you will look back on them and you will know then what you might not know now-- that every trial was sent to you so that you could learn something. So that you could grow in ways that you otherwise wouldn't have. I am grateful that I have been sent the trials I am facing. Even though I feel alone, even though I am struggling in school, even though my life is not perfect, I know I am learning life lessons that I will use for the rest of my earthly life- and for that, I am thankful for every single one of my many hardships.
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