佚名/Anonymous
All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life won't be perfect, we'll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.
Whether it's a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic event in your life, these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.
Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time. Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it's lying in wait just around the corner. To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self-delusion.
But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and left them lying in the dust. Abraham Lincoln overcomes a difficult child-hood, depression, the death of two sons, and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably one of the greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. Franklin Roosevelt had polio.
There are endless examples. These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.
我們每天都應該讓自己做好準備，迎接可以預見的挫折和挑戰。如果我們相信生活不可能是完美的，我們就能避免因一時的衝動而放棄追求。但即使你擁有堅強的意誌，能夠挺過生活和工作中的困難，有時你也會遭遇逆境，它將會在背後給你狠狠的一擊。
不管是遭受經濟損失，或是失去同輩及親人的尊敬，還是遭受生命重創，這些重大挫折都會使你對自己產生懷疑，並且懷疑情況能否好轉。