We all have our times of sorrow, distress, and dejection. And what we tend to do in those times is sit in a gloomy corner and contemplate our misery, pity ourselves and acknowledge that we are in a really dreadful position. We all have our ways of getting through crises. Some eat ice-cream, some watch TV, others cry or write or do just about anything that would make them forget about reality. However, few of us really understand what a crisis is; know its exact causes, more or less, or the potential solutions. Even fewer realize that there may be an opportunity hidden somewhere under the suffering.
If we go deeper into what a crisis actually means, we realize it is actually a turning point. We may turn in either direction, towards the bad or towards the good. It rests upon us and our package of wisdom to decide which way we want things to turn. We should, or must, decide whether we want to continue through the crisis unchanged, always walking forward in a straight line like a racing horse, or take the harder but more satisfactory way out and spin our lives around. Besides making the big decision, we have to also implement it. Whereas settling on what to do might be a start, there is much more than that to do to make it work. Trying hard is required in order to achieve what we plan. A dire situation may have lessons to teach us, if we are ready and willing to learn. We just need to have the frame of mind necessary to make the most out of it. It might be hard to do it, but in order to make it out of crises, we need to step out of the comfort zone, and do whatever is needed, be it tough or simple, to reach the maximum.
Opportunities can be squeezed out of almost any crisis, and what matters is what we succeed in making out of them. By being eager to learn from our mistakes or from the many problems we encounter, not only can we achieve a higher level of understanding of the world that surrounds us, but also discover how to know ourselves better.
