Sunflowers and Rain

Life can be hard. Life can be sad. Life can be very difficult and it can be downright depressing, BUT life can also be wonderful and amazing; life can be full of love, full of warmth and caring, full of happiness.

In other words, Life is full of Sunflowers and Rain.

Knowing how to navigate between these different periods takes a lot of learning of past experiences. Looking back at how you coped before so that you can do the same thing again or similar.

You can become completely overwhelmed and fall down, meltdown, unable even to move, but that’s okay because maybe that’s what you need to do at that particular time.

However, if you have the knowledge that it’s temporary that you can get out of this, you have done this before, then you will be able to do it again.

Sometimes though you can get stuck in the rainy periods. It may seem too scary to move out in case you get wet. You don’t seem to have the energy to put up an umbrella or put on your wellingtons, so you stay inside to stay dry but this can then create a comfort zone and the longer you stay there the harder it will be to put up that umbrella to go outside. Also, if you remain in this comfort zone, the zone will get smaller and smaller until you become more and more trapped.

Putting up the umbrella and going out to look for the sunflowers is always worth it even though it’s not always easy, but it’s knowing what to do and how to do it is the trick and to remember that it’s ok to get wet!

Therefore ask yourself “what did you do in your life, what helps you to move from the rain to the sunflowers? What helped you in the past? Or how did somebody else do it?”

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