Life's struggle is something that everyone at some point and time has to go through. Everyone will struggle at some point (sometimes lots of different points), but not everyone's struggles will be the same. We have struggles with finances, relationships, religion, and even with ourselves. Although the struggles can be similar in nature to one another's it never really is the same, because each individual has a different view, the struggle happens at different times in life, and different experiences. Although person A and person B both struggled with finances they both may survive that struggle in very different ways, and the struggle can be for very different reasons. Person A may have lost a job while Person B worked hard every day but couldn't get out from under past debt. I believe it is in the way that we survive the struggles that we can learn from each other even when the actual experience and struggles are completely different.
Surviving is truly the key to life struggles. Once we stop fighting to battle through the struggles of life is when we no longer survive. The way we go about surviving is no more similar person to person as the struggles themselves. Some may make the choice to rely on faith, friends, family, and others may choose to only rely on themselves. The choices of how we survive are choices made individually. We can’t at any time look at another person’s life and compare it to our own because that person had different experiences. You can read as many help books as you would like, or get advice from those around you listening to what they went through as a matter of reference to realize that you are not alone in life struggles. If you decide to follow exactly what they did you will learn that it just won’t work all the time. Every person is different and has different experiences in life and with that the struggles of life are as different as each person is. You can sit a group of people down that survived the same type of struggle in life, and you will get a different view point from each one of them on how it began and how they survived.
Today people are simply looking for the easy way out. Looking to others to determine how they should go about their own life without considering that it is just that “their” life. Listen to what others have to say about the things they have gone through, but stop and realize that your life is different from theirs. You have to apply the things you learn from others into your life in a different way, and throw out all the things they did or learned that don’t apply to you. The realization that everyone is different and with that everyone’s life experiences will be different as well, and embrace the difference being grateful for the knowledge that you’re not alone.