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以前曾经在心版转发过一篇英语精品文章，现在再为狼兄转发一次。
Life Problems and Solutions
Robert H. Schuller
What is the secret ingredient of tough people that enables them to succeed? Why do they survive the tough times when others are overcome by them? Why do they win when others lose? Why do they soar when others sink?
The answer is very simple. It’s all in how they perceive their problems. Yes, every living person has problems. Even the nonstriving person has the problem of inertia. This, in turn, produces a lack of zest and enthusiasm. He lives life on a low level of physical energy, becoming bored. Boredom is hardly a state of happiness or contentment. The nonstriving person who elects to avoid problems actually creates new ones.
How about the striver? The student who is knocking himself out to get an A average? The mountain climber who is clawing the side of the cliff, risking life and limb, for the joy of overcoming an enormous challenge? How about the handicapped person who spends hours every day in painful exercises and rehabilitation therapy? Do they have problems? Of course! They run the risk of failure. There is always the enormous possibility of heart-wrenching disappointment if they should lose the prize after years of training.
How about the arriver—the person who reaches the mountaintop? Doesn’t this person enjoy a sense of freedom and relief from all problems? Is he not free from the problem of the boredom that plagues that nondreamer? And is he not free from the fear of failing that annoys the striver? Is it not heaven on earth to come in the first place and to reach the top of the mountain?
Certainly, it is wonderful to be an arriver, an achiever. But saying that the arriver leaves all problems behind would be an error. In my experience, I have found that the arriver has greater problems than the striver.
The point is clear: nobody is free from problems. A problem-free life is an illusion –—a mirage in the desert. It is a dangerously deceptive perception, which can mislead, blind, and distract. To pursue a problem-free life is to run after an elusive fantasy, it is a waste of mental and physical energies. Every living human person has problems. Accept that fact.
Every mountain has a peak. Every valley has its low point. Life has its ups and downs, its peaks and its valleys. No one is up all the time, nor are they down all the time. Problems do end. They are all resolved in time.
You may not be able to control the times, but you can compose your response. You can turn your pain into profanity—or into poetry. The choice is up to you. You may not have chosen your tough time, but you can choose how you will react to it. For instance, what is the positive reaction to a terrible financial setback? In this situation would it be the positive reaction to cop out and run away? Escape through alcohol, drug, or suicide? No! Such negative reactions only produce greater problems by promising a temporary “solution” to the pressing problem. The positive solution to a problem may require courage to initiate it. When you control your reaction to seemingly uncontrollable problems of life, then in fact you do control the problem’s effect on you. Your reaction to the problem is the last word! That’s the bottom line. What will you let this problem do to you? It can make you tender or tough. It can make you better or bitter. It all depends on you.
In the final analysis the tough people who survive the tough times do so because they’ve chosen to react positively to their predicament. Tough times never last, but tough people do. Tough people stick it out. History teaches us that every problem has a lifespan. No problem is permanent. Storms always give way to the sun. Winter always thaws into springtime. Your storm will pass. Your winter will thaw. Your problem will be solved.
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