Day 175 of wisdom
“Pray not for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.”
John F. Kenedy
The best prayer we can pray for ourselves is not to have easier lives, but to be better men, and we don't become better men just by praying, we become better men by working while we pray. Life does not get any easier, it only gets tougher, and more difficult. Those we see to live seemingly easy lives does not find it easy also. Every new stage, every new level, every new height of our lives always require a better, upgraded, more informed, wiser, more enlightened, and stronger version of us.
Life never takes it easy with any man, so we shouldn't expect an easy, and smooth ride in life, and we must not also take it easy with life. If we allow, life will deal with us, drag us to the ground, stain us, wound, and paralyse us, and then allow little, insignificant problems to trample on us. If we must win in life we must always meet the challenges of life either with an equal, or stronger force than it faces us with.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who is the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, and ruler of the Emirate of Dubai once said, "An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations." Ease never produces something enviable. Struggle, challenges, difficulties make great men, and great men achieve enviable, and long lasting feats.
If all you want to do are the easy things, if you are never willing to do the hard, and difficult things, if you never strive to live a great, meaningful, and inspiring life, you need not be told that life soon becomes difficult for people like you. But if you will live in comfort, if you aspire to live the life of your dreams, if you will live the life tomorrow that others won't live, you must be willing and ready to do the things today that others won't do, that is, the harsh, difficult, and challenging things.
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