2025 has been hard on many fronts, but I cannot remember when I experienced a relief.
As humans we tend to take comfort in the other aspects of life that are better than others, but sometimes it gets bad on all front and we didn't even have a comfort place.
In my last post I talked about someone on the chain who couldn't pay back their debt and experienced some crash out because of that.
Perhaps they've experienced some hard times in life and couldn't find any comfort, perhaps it could be strain from all aspects of life, sometimes it just doesn't work and life becomes too terrible.
People day hard times don't last, but this isn't a practical realistic nature of life.
Hard times can last a long time and good times can do the same, but also, life can switch from being good to bad and vice versa.
I've seen the chronicity of bad times, and experience painful longevity, this doesn't mean I have seen good times, it's just that in my life experiences, I've seen bad times lasting love longer, and I'm sure that this is the same for a lot of people.
I've heard life stories, not the ones that are used to sell or advertise things.
I mean real life stories that are never documented anywhere or heard anywhere, and trust me, life isn't Hollywood, a lot of it has and can end badly, it doesn't matter your character, whether you're the protagonist or side man.
I've said a lot of "life can get hard" in close to 3 years now, and it has practically become a cliche. However no smart how hard I repeat this, it makes more sense the more I say it over and over and begin to reflect on it.
Why? Reality can get realer
One of my cousins was once financially stable, but he saved his money with a relative who couldn't account well for the money and when we went back to ground zero, he was left with nothing, even that he was once deemed to be financially stable.
Some days he gets really angry, and that's because all the attempts he's made to get back up there has failed. This has made him depressed, he'd worked hard and still cannot scrap anything good, and this shows in his attitude and reaction towards life.
While I have my own financial fumbles, my pain is deeper and higher. Sometimes my worries aren't the regular type. Life moves on, and until it chooses to stop, we have to continue. Until your watch is over, can stop now.
I like to dwell on my mistakes, think about my ails, the terrible times and the days I didn't prepare for the rainy days.
The bad side is that it can consume you, but you're reminded of all your life mess-ups, and you can carry this through your lifetime. Gracefully, life can offer second chances you, and you might receive the mercy to get a second chance.
As if some form of consolation, I try to remind myself to the reality that hard times generally tend to last much much longer than the good times, so learning to be "okay" and live with the hard times is a bit easier to practice. Eventually, if the good times come, they can be cherished without getting attached to them.
Yeah, you're completely correct. For me, I've seen more hard, trying and testing times and I have all that memory stored in my mind. However if I had understood this reality 4 or 5 years ago, perhaps I might have taken advantage of all that good time to prepare myself for the time that came.
Right, when we're immersed in good times, we sometimes don't make the best out of it to prepare for the hard times that come after it. Sounds a bit counterintuitive but good times are the times to work the hardest.
Yeah, right. In reality sometimes I feel I learned too late that good times aren't always long lasting
There is a saying, good moments are little times between a bad moment and an other one... Probably they are right...
For how hard we can try we all do mistakes, but who faces hard times I think is more prepared and tries and avoid them the most possible
Probably they're right.... This narrative would means that a lot of people actually go through more hard times while experiencing some good times in-between. I think this is mostly right, because realty isn't always as "roses and flower" as we think it to be
Life is tough, and I don't think its bad to think about your mistakes. After all, you learn from them and you can try your best to not have it happen again. You can never save enough.
Yeah, I'm not one to not look at mistakes. If for one, I see my mistakes as an opportunity to make myself accountable to myself
I am happy to see a second person that believes what I believe, because whenever I hear the word hard time doesn't last I get soo upset because I think it is an individual thing, that someone hard time didn't last doesn't mean that hard time doesn't last, I have experienced an unending hard time that crushed and left me automatically empty so I partially understand you.
Well just be grateful for one thing and that is life, remain hopeful in the midst of hard time that will supply you needed strength to keep striving.
The bad times just keep coming this year don't they? At least they have for me... Sorry to hear your cousin went back to square one after saving up his money, that really sucks. There are second chances, and it you have the energy to take advantage of them they can be a life saver. I just wish I had more energy!
I hope you are hanging in there and not having any further setbacks.
!PAKX