Seeing Simplicity

Sep 12, 2018, 2 comments, 12 smiles [Below are reflections on the theme of "simplicity" from my summer.] When we encounter obstacles, challenges, failures, rejections, or struggles, we instinctively feel a sense of disappointment and discourage. As we grow, we continue to face even more obstacles, and I often find these situations to have a domino effect. For instance, if I face an obstacle in something in my life, then sometimes everything else in my life could fall downhill along with that. As I grow older, I am facing more and more failures in my life and this summer I finally asked myself why I get disappointed by these failures and why do failures have to be such a bad thing? Of course I knew that I get disappointed because these struggles were never what I intended to occur. One day, I thought to myself, "If only my life were so simple, then I wouldn’t have any of these problems”. I ... Read Full Story