Imagine with me a world where you stopped segmenting out the difficulty in your life as other than,

where you stopped seeing the turbulence as an obstacle to your journey.

Imagine with me life as a symphony, where everything works together to create the whole,

where the high notes, the low notes, the pauses, the rest, the tempo changes, all contribute to the overall theme.

None of it's unimportant or dismissable.

How could it be?

Without the low notes, the high notes don't mean anything.

Without the rest, you don't get the satisfaction and the power of the moment that music

re-emerges.

In fact, it was the contrast that created the magic to begin with.

All of it is needed, even when you don't understand why.

You don't know that this slow beginning, the breaks, the tempo changes, that it will all be the reason you are soon

awed by the crescendo that awaits. And how could you? It's one flow. The journey points in one

direction. You are in this for the ride. See in our lives the obstacles, the chaos, the confusion they hurt.

They're unsettling, so the inclination is to dismiss them, to push them away.

This isn't what I need, this is void of value, so get rid of it, we tell ourselves.

When in reality, those things are integral components to your song.

They are what culminate into your final piece.

They're bringing you to that crescendo.

It doesn't mean you have to love the challenging times.

Of course not.

But it does mean we should understand that even

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