Everyone has challenges to face, allowing the ability for them to find a strength within. 

We are all looking for quiet moments in life. No matter what challenges life throws our way, we handle them effortlessly and efficiently. It’s nice when this happens, but there will be times when we suffer.

Challenges will arise, and these are not so nice to face sometimes. Through these challenges, people get the opportunity to grow, prosper, and evolve toward being the best version of themselves possible. The path of growth can be an uncomfortable journey to take. That is how life pushes you. Hurdles will force you to grow financially, personally, and even in relationships. This interaction is apparent in the natural world, as creatures small and large in the wild become more robust by facing difficult things in their lives. Changes happen as challenges arise, which forces us to improve the reactions and behaviors one decides upon. Those who meet the difficulties with resolve most often are not the ones who fade into mediocrity. Each person has the same opportunity for growth through this type of development, and the most significant gains in personal growth can come into your life. The choices and decisions are all up to you.

We Evolve Through Challenges

If there were no challenges in life, we would be looking at a much different landscape. There would be no need for growth, and things that are not growing are usually not around for very long. There has never been a time in the history of man where challenges didn’t arise. A potential invasion from a neighboring country, a plague, changes in markets, trade, drought, war, or many other things have presented unique challenges over the world’s history. Each time, the problems have been faced, met, and overcome. Problems lead to people reaching deeper and looking for new solutions that didn’t exist before.

Evolution is a natural growth pattern that grows out of necessity for change. It allows new inventions to come into being and new ways of thinking to be recognized and entertained. Challenges promote adaptation, evolution, growth, and just plain old learning. We must ask ourselves tough questions from each challenge to see what exists inside us. There can be a strength in all of us that we can tap into when facing challenges. This strength will allow you to keep trying and moving forward when all you want to do is a retreat from the difficulties encountered.

Relativity and Spirituality

Why are we here? That is the most profound spiritual question that most thinking people ponder at some point in life. What is the purpose of this experience? Are we here just to be born, go to school, work, and then die? Probably not. The challenges we face provide growth in life and a purpose for what we do. Overcoming an obstacle provides urgency to our lives and forces us to look within to find that inner strength. We may not conquer our challenges all at once, but if we are diligent, we will come out on top.

Challenges in life force us to look at our complete selves and find peace with that. Spiritually we look for a meaning behind it all, a force that guides us all. Some call it God, some the Universe, whatever you choose to call this force, challenges in life show us something bigger is there. What that is exactly is up to the individual to define for himself. Religion is what someone else tells you about this force. Spirituality is what you know and learn for yourself. At some point, we all choose how we view that power. Or want to ignore it altogether. To me, there are no wrong choices. Whatever helps you get through the day and evolve into your best self is perfect for you.

Finding Meaning

Being challenged allows us to look at life, grow, and find things in the world that matter to us. The alternative is to see no meaning, which seems to be a popular course for many people. People seek to find meaning in material things, providing temporary satisfaction. False satisfaction can be confused with fulfillment, but it doesn’t last long. Then you are looking for other material things to accumulate to gain that feeling again. Material obsession seems to challenge society as we collect ever-growing piles of things.

The challenge is okay, though, because eventually, the emptiness that remains after accumulating more and more stuff will lead to questioning how we can find fulfillment. Through these challenges, you will start to look for what things make you happy. What do you create? Who do you create it with? These mysteries will reveal a particular meaning to life that is unique to all of us. That is the power of the law of relativity. If you survive all the challenges, a better version of yourself is the result. We become a more pliable version of ourselves that might be reforged throughout our life experiences.

Challenges are a part of life, and they are here to allow us to become our best selves. They will reveal our strengths and weaknesses but will enable us to experience fast growth and understanding. They are overcoming the fear of losing yesterday to embrace a better today and the unknown of tomorrow.

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” -Molière

“It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station, those great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.” -Abigail Adams.

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” -T.S. Eliot