When Nothing Goes Your Way

We have all been there. With your back against the wall, you feel helpless as the life you have built for yourself is reduced to rubble at your feet. Plans, dreams and goals are but scrap. The only thing you can do is breath and ponder what tomorrow holds in store.

In these moments, we become victims of our circumstances; the things that are out of our immediate control. But what if we were missing a sign?

As mentioned many times before, change is the one thing we can absolutely count on as being inevitable. But when we resist change or fail to recognize a need for change, we set ourselves up for being blindsided by it, which results in moments of collapse when nothing goes as expected or as we had hoped for.

The fact is, sometimes, life needs to get your attention. When we invest so much of ourselves and our resources into things and situations that do not serve to benefit our lives in a healthy, constructive way, life will eventually find a way to intervene if you are incapable of seeing error in your ways. Life will halt you in your tracks and force you to assess who you are, your behavior, your decisions, etc. and demand that you be accountable to yourself.  

Most people would think that being grateful for having nothing go your way is out of the question, but this is not what any logical person would expect you to be grateful for. Overcoming the collapse is what you stand to be grateful for.

You become grateful for the STOP sign and then for the DETOUR that forces you to change directions. You become grateful for the road that you ultimately find yourself on that you would have never discovered had you not experienced a time when nothing went your way.