The power of choosing your struggles

Life inevitably entails suffering, yet within this reality lies the profound power of choice. While you may not control every life event that befalls you, you can choose the purpose for your daily suffering. Furthermore, you possess the autonomy to assign meaning to your struggles.

When one is confronted by sorrow or adversity, it becomes crucial to acknowledge the pain and embrace a necessary period of tears and misery. This journey through the tunnel of emotions is not only acceptable but essential to emerge on the other side. However, a pivotal moment arrives when these emotions cease to serve you. This marks the juncture of evolution, depending upon the choices you make. Do you stay in the dark tunnel or decide to step out into the light? 

Embracing the power of choice in what you endure and for how long not only fosters resilience but also gives you the ability to shape your own narrative, find inner strength, and continue on the path of growth and fulfillment.

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Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, said: Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Dr. Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man’s Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps. This was the book that taught me that as long as I can find a reason to live for, I can endure any how, and if I ever felt that life had been tough for me in the past or made me suffer, I could change the way I felt by assigning a new meaning to those events of the past. Even though I could not change the events or the past, I realised that it was not what happened that affected me, it was what those things meant to me that made me suffer. I learned to change the meaning and therefore the suffering ended.

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