How many times have you heard someone who is in a challenging situation say, "I am going through a rough patch" or something similar? The key is in the phrase "I am going through."
If you are in a similar situation, my advice is to keep going through whatever you are dealing with. A friend, J.T. O'Hara, had a unique way of saying the same thing: "When you are going through hell, don't stop to take pictures." That's where the problem lies. In today's world of high tech, we have so many ways to "take pictures" and constantly share them with everyone we meet. We love to wallow in our troubles by sharing with others just how bad our life really is. I guess misery really does love company.
Just how bad is your life, really?
-Wally Amos, "Going Through", The Costco Connection, May 2010, pg 11.
Things are difficult now; the last thing I need to do is take pictures... unless they're cute ones of my kids. :-) Hopefully I can post some of those soon.
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