Life

Since the first day we are lunged out of our mothers, we were born to learn that we grow through little steps and little choices we make on our own. As babies, we had to learn everything for the first time. We had our first crawl, learned how to climb and eventually, learned how to walk and run. Sure, we had the aid of our parents, but every little effort we took, came from our own strengths.

As we grow older, we look back at times when we were kids and think “We had it so easy back then. Everything was done for us and not a care in the world in our innocent minds.” While that may be true, the grown up version ourselves fail to see or remember what was going through our minds when we were kids. We think that every little problem we had as babies would be solved by just a cry and at a blink of an eye, someone would come to our aid and fix it. Did we ever stop to wonder the amount of stress the baby-versions of us were in back then? Having to always cry and wait for someone to help instead of having the ability to do things on our own?

We ache for the ability to just have someone do things for us, and it’s because of that need that we start looking at the challenges life throws at us as a mind-numbingly difficult one, when it really isn’t all that bad. I mean, think of it this way, when we were born, we knew nothing. Yet, we were able to train our minds and bodies to do something completely alien to our own basic knowledge.

It begs to answer the question, “Is anything in life difficult?” The answer to that is, yes. However, that never ever gives us the right to stop trying and stop believing on ourselves. Take into consideration this scenario:

“Imagine a time where you had to learn to walk all by yourself, but you gave up and just decided to stop. Would that decision give you the ability to walk to work? Or give you the ability to get your own food or make friends?”

In life, every little thing that comes to us acts as a linking bridge to something harder, but greater. A problem we face right now, when solved, could take us to a better place where even more challenges are awaiting our arrival. What will we do then? Just sit there and give up? Expecting someone to just waltz on by and do it for us? No. We stand up for what we know we can do and push our own limits to do the impossible. What may seem difficult now will soon look like just a pathetic speck to us in 10 years. You know how I know I’m right? Take a step back and ask yourself, how do you see how your problems were like when you were 5?


-Illiana Z.