We had a saying at university - "life's a bitch and then you die"... which seemed like an interesting thing to say before exams. A fatalistic view of life in the face of a perceived threat/danger (exams). But is that really what life is like? I suppose it really depends on how we view life. Do we trust life? Is life something to be endured? Or is life something to be ventured?
The truth is... life will show up in exactly the way that we believe life will show up. If we believe that life is a struggle... then life will be a struggle. If we believe that life's a bitch and then you die... then that will be how life will show up for us. If we don't trust ourselves... we won't trust life.
Ultimately it's up to us as to how we handle life... sure, bad things happen... but the question is, how do we handle them? Do we resist them? Accept them? Move through them? Let the past go? Or are we always going through life looking for the next bad thing? Cause if we are... then we'll find it.
I'd rather move through life in a venturing way... or adventuring way... life has all sorts of opportunities... for exploration and newness and discoveries... that's my view of life. What's yours? And it's not to say that one is right and one is wrong... there are as many ways of moving through life as there are people on this earth... but some ways lead to pain and suffering and some ways lead to joy and fulfillment...
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