★Beliefs

Beliefs...

A word that comes to my mind is maturity. Adversity helps up develop maturity. In the US and I suspect in other parts of the world there seems to be a growing culture of entitlement and victim-hood. I sincerely believe we have a lot of “adults” who are really just spoiled children in adult bodies teaching actual children that they are entitled to reward without effort and if they fail at anything that they are really just victims of some sort of “ism”. When a person goes through adversity he will gain wisdom. Some people never reach wisdom, but, adversity is a pretty good teacher. One thing that maturity and wisdom gives us is the patience to understand that we have control over some parts of our lives, but, not all. Some things take effort. Some things take diligence. And tornadoes don’t care how diligent you are or how wise you are, a tornado is a tornado. It doesn’t care what you think. Adversity teaches us to accept tornadoes for what they are.

In response to Smart_Routines_With_Enthusiasm’s post:

You are so correct! Entitlement is a growing problem in th U.S. Entitlement in itself is not bad, it is the lack of responsibility we take for our own actions. If we take no responsibility for our actions, then we are truly acting irresponsibly. The word childlike does comes to mind. Becoming a responsible adult is not always fun. You have to make hard decisions about your life and be strong enough in your convictions to survive those things that blow you away ( tornadoes) we all have the strength and resolve to overcome adversity but there is a always great effort involved. It is our responsibility to choose our own path and not blame someone else for our condition.

If you had a magic wand and every time you waved it you got what you wanted, your life would be miserable and meaningless and inescapable boredom. The only way out would be to wave your wand and wish for something beyond your ability to control. To escape you would eventually have to break your wand.