Growth in the challenge

How we as humans are concepted, we feel, think and believe. A lot. Changes are uncomfortable for most of us, it means something in our life is not anymore how it used to be and therefore we become unhappy. The more drastic the change affected our life, the more feelings are involved. We struggle, have to find a way again to live the life with this massive change. It can be anything, losing your job, starting a new life abroad, losing a close a person in your life or even just moving to a new place a couple streets further. Any time there is a big change in our life you feel it in yourself. How life is not the same it used to be a couple of weeks ago, and you have to cope with this.
Analyzing this situation is the first step and so you realize that it is actually good. The more of these life challenges a person encounters within their life, usually the stronger they are. Of course, the person has to be strong enough to go through all the hard times without collapsing and creating serious depressions or anything similar. You notice a massive growth with these challenging times as you have to survive again in a new environment.

One of the most impressive things a human is capable of is adapting to all kind of situations. Adapting to a new life situation where you went abroad for a year. Quit everything, your whole life back home, your job, do not see your friends and family for many months, leaving all the stuff from your flat behind, only having this backpack on your back with some clothes and the most important things. You have a credit card, a valid working visa, your passport. Nothing else needed. You go out of the plane, arrive in the busy cbd with huge skyscrapers and hundreds of people walking and driving in front of you. This is your life now, you are newborn, having all the possibilities again, whatever you want to achieve, with enough faith it will work and you are going to make it happen.
First, obviously you need accommodation and so you book a hostel, there, you get to know the first people - in your new life. But you are not staying in this big city, big money is the goal to finance a long travel. A car is bought, having everything you need to survive anywhere in the country, being mobile and able to reach every location. After hundreds of applications for several days the winning call comes and you have a job. Quitting this job after a while as you realize there is more to reach for, this is not the top yet. You take your time, take three weeks off for finding the job you want and when finally the call comes you are highly motivated to start a new life another time. You rent your own house, make friends, have parties and great evenings, do your groceries, get to know your new job and drive into the automatic garage every evening. This looks like you are at home but it is not, in fact you are thousands of kilometres away from there - in your new life.

Everything you wanted is given to you because you worked for it, and that is the basic concept of mastering life. As long as your spirit is strong enough you can achieve anything you want. For this hard work over several months, you get the reward. You can finally travel, without any worries about money or possibilities, your hard work paid off. All the early mornings you got up, ready for another twelve hour shift, with this goal in your head although not feeling like working at all. All the times you were tired at work during night shift but pushed yourself to keep on going. All the times you were struggling and evaluating how much this money really is worth having a 72 hour week over and over again with nothing else left in your life apart from your free Sunday night. The reward is given to you and so you experience the most amazing travel, with the most insane moments of your whole life.

After knowing how you mastered life with this big challenge nothing else can break you anymore. There are definitely always hard times coming up in life but you know how strong you are, how strong the human spirit is when it comes to keep on going with a dream in your head. This is art of life, making it happen wherever you are in the world. With every challenge you encounter you grow, you gain experience and can handle better the next time.
This is what our basic life goal should be. Not a job, a career or a house we want to have. Our goal should be to become a better human being with everything you experience. Good or bad, you should use the situations in your life to become the best version of yourself - every day a little better.