My Life, My Lessons...

                                         Life Lesson.
"It has been said that life is the most patient teacher.
You will be presented with the same experience over and over until you learn the best way to deal with the situation. 
This is not because life is cruel. 
Rather, it is because things have a way of coming back to haunt us when we don't deal with them. 
One form of intelligence is the ability to learn from mistakes. 
When you are presented with a painful experience, take the time to think about how you can avoid it in the future. 
This is an example of a lesson learned."
                                  -By Family Friend Poems

This poem encapsulates my disposition to every of my life's experiences. Good, bad, ugly...regardless of the sometimes irreparable damages, irrecoverable losses and irrevocable times, with the right attitude, a seeming setback can actually become a setup for a greater come back! 

For me, my philosophy is succinctly captured in that ancient wisdom that says : ..."ALL things (good, bad, ugly) work together for good"...(Emphasis mine). With this mind set, I have by the continued enablement of my Creator weathered most of the ill intentioned storms that have traversed my path in destiny hitherto.

Tell you what, this is not to say the storms are conclusively over, as the song composer, producer and multiple award wining musician R. Kelly once sang: "The storm is over."  One of the fundamental experiential lessons I have come away with in life is that the storms of life are in seasons of different intensities. They never go away. The more you overcome the more you face. 

Remember this is not to mean that life is cruel. For what you don't confront you don't conquer. My experience is; for each one I overcome and learn my lessons so that when such a situation rears its ugly head again (as it sometimes does) I outgrow such without sweat. It is only at this time that one moves to a new level in a new season to face a new and sometimes greater storm. 
Heh...eh...eh.... It does appear therefore that for every new level there is a new 'devil', isn't it? Hmn...hmn... The greater the storm you are willing to face therefore, the greater the calm you are willing to experience. For that consoling assurance stands that at the end of every storm there will always be a soothing calm.

In my short life, I have failed at a number of things, I have succeeded and still succeeding at a number of others, but above all I have learnt a number of lessons from all these experiences. One of them is that a life that will be significant and great is an eclectic mix of falling, rising, falling, rising and never stop rising each time you fall till you get to your envisioned Eldorado. 
Tenacity must be our companion.

I think the late and former United Kingdom legendary Prime Minister and Statesman- Sir Winston Churchill, couldn't have put it better when he said: "Success is moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." If our lives must matter at the end of this maze-like journey, if in the words of bestselling author and speaker Steve Ferrer, we must "Finish Strong", then we must make our lives' experiences a repertoire from which we draw helpful lessons.

I am so excited that our shared moments here will be that of stimulating learnings, re-learnings and un-learnings from our beautiful lives.

My gratitude for your taking time to share moment with me at "My Life, My Lessons..."