It can’t all be easy.

As much as we’d like it to be… it just isn’t.  I guess it truly is a matter of perception.  Some things seem very hard to certain people, and quite easy to others.

Yet, we all meet circumstances in life which are difficult.  To us.

It is kind of like taking a pill… …. maybe.

You see. We need the pill to get better.  In the same way, we need things in our life which are difficult.  If it were all bright happy sunshine, and good smelling feet…. we wouldn’t have appreciation for ALL the good things in life.  The sweet times.

So here is this bitter pill.  And we have to take it to get better.  To grow.

It is probably a lot smarter to swallow it whole, don’t you think?  I mean… crunching it up in little pieces… and tasting all that bitter, horrible, cat-puke taste in our mouths.  Well… there is nothing pleasant about THAT.

In the same way, if we face difficulties in life… in some circumstances… it may be better to take them whole.  Swallow it whole, and let the learning process, start to work on us.  But if continue to prolong the pain, for days… months.. or even lifetimes…. all we have is a bitter taste in our mouth.  The medicine never quite got down.  Our lesson never learned.

I wish it all could be easy-peasy… domineasy.  But when that hard thing comes to us, we do our best to get by.  We do our best to learn and grow.  And begin to appreciate the good things, once again.

The sun’s going to shine again.  We are going to feel better, eventually.  But first we need to get past the hurdle.  We need to swallow that medicine.