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Aww, were you hoping it was Valentines Day? :P. Well--too bad. It's June. The sun has been shining throughout the day and the heat is rising in my room. My word! I will need a fan soon :). For those of my readers who don't live in the UK, air conditioning is not too common over here. People tend to keep their windows open at night with the disadvantage of having little flies buzzing around the room following your lamp light and the occasional moth who yells: "Freeeeedoooooom!" before being zapped in the belly.
Today's article is represented in the picture above. I love this for lots of reasons, one reason is that it's one of my favorite stories from the Old Testament, referred to as "David and Goliath". For those who aren't familiar with the story, let me summarize: there were two large armies at war with each other. One army had Goliath as their best warrior: a giant of a man, almost indestructible on the battle field. The other army (who had the support of God) were terrified of Goliath. Yet from the ranks, a little teenager by the name of David, a strong believer in the power of God, volunteered to fight the beast, and to some persuasion of his own king, he eventually stepped out and went to fight him. With a sling shot and some nifty rocks, he found a weak spot in Goliath's armor and crippled his skull, killing the monster and winning the battle for his side.
While the meaning of the tale is talking about God's power overcoming any physical obstacle, I think it's also a beautiful analogy for fighting problems in our everyday's lives. I feel that the way we view our problems whether it is a chipped fingernail, or a difficult exam paper, is a Goliath. Essentially, we create something that is too powerful to fight back against. We simply assume defeat when it happens to us. Often this will come in the form of "Argghh" and "Oh my gosh, seriously? I hate this." We become overwhelmed naturally by the problem as if it is our default state. Our default state is anything but painful: it is happiness, and it is love.
Therefore, it is ourselves who make these problems real "issues". We are giving them armor, girth, strength, height and a sword to carry. While at the back of our minds we may believe that we have a magical slingshot, we allow ourselves to get beaten by the Goliath first. Similarly, when we ignore our problems, or forget they ever happened, we end up running away from Goliath and while he won't hit us straight away, he'll make sure to get us later. That was the beauty of the story: David never fled the battle. Problems will always go away if you stand and fight.
When you stand and fight the problems, its very weaknesses emerge, and once you learn of them (once you find the sweet spot in its eye) you can attack the problem in that same way next time. Treat every problem as a learning experience. In fact I see problems emerging as reminders to myself that I am not fighting hard enough. When you are in a poor state of mind, if you attack that problem it will tell you exactly how you should deal with it.
On a deeper level this can also become your life philosophy. Everything that you touch and see, everything that exists on this Earth, has a timer on it. Food goes rotten, rooms become dirty, conversations become dry, and we all age. We fight battle's every single day of our life. Some are bigger than others but they all have the same result. Everything's natural state flows from good to bad. Tell me, if you are not fighting back then what are you doing? :D. Throughout history it has always been those who have fought against the current, that have changed themselves and the world for the better. Take those who brought the idea forward that the world was actually a sphere: despite all of the rejections and accusations of insanity because of their determination to fight back against the Goliath (the society at the time), they kept on trying. Now everyone believes that the world is a sphere.
There is a beautiful and very famous quote that goes something like this: "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good to do nothing." Again, without fighting, you have no cause. Another great quote is "If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything". You should use both quotes as pillars that support this article :).
And so my beautiful little friend, never blow up your problems beyond your reach. Every problem is the same: a lesson on how to be better. When that emotion comes up, or while you begin to stifle a grumble, or a groan--silence it, and just smile. Your body and your mind is trying to tell you that you have to work harder and one day, you won't have that problem again as long as you know how to defeat it. You will be the happiest you ever felt, just like David felt when the enemies army fled after what he had done. He had eliminated the largest problem. Name the largest problem in your life and if you can solve that, all of the little problems will seemingly vanish.
Until next time, punch that Goliath in the nose, and ladies, stiletto poke him in the butt and pepper spray him good :D.
Peace and love :).
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