" Sweet are the uses of adversity"

“ Sweet are the uses of adversity” –Shakespeare

The bard never ceases to amaze me with his earthy wisdom. I wonder if he was as wise in real life as well. That beside the point, the statement is so true. As I have written earlier in my blogs that our failures and adversity teach us more than our success. I also quoted the story of King Bruce who lost everything and then regained it.

History is full of such examples. What actually happens is that our success makes us smug. We, in a way, stop learning and growing as a person. Because we are successful, people praise us all the time; we get access to things and places, which a common man cannot. So we don’t pay attention to things that might matter. We take others for granted and we start believing that all those who surround us are our well-wishers.

But come adversity and most of those so called friends disappear. That is the time we know who our true friends are. That is the time we reflect what went wrong and what mistakes we committed. We revisit our strategy and try to rebuild our life with renewed vigour. Of course all this comes after a long period of anger and frustration. But it is our crisis that helps us improve ourselves. It gives us a new perspective and keeps us down to earth. The cloud of success makes us giddy and takes us on a voyage of fantasy. But adversity keeps us sharp and prepared.

So, if you are down in the dumps and life has been unkind to you, sit back and relax. Think what can be done about the situation. Believe me, you will get insights that you never thought possible.

So be it!!!