Sometimes it is a sentence heard out of context, from an unlikely source that gives meaning to what is going on in your life.
Yesterday, I was watching a drop-dead gorgeous movie superstar being interviewed on TV, and the interviewer asked him about a not-such-a-good career phase of his life, a string of flops after a debut hit.
And he said, “Well, it was also the period of my life when I was working hard on the movie that made me who I am today.
That dark period of critical and popular oblivion was an incredibly depressing experience full of suffering. But I used it to ask questions, to find answers, to channel those answers into creative channels and evolve as an actor.
I believe that it is important not just to survive through a difficult experience, but to actually use it to bounce back: if you do not ask the right questions when you are suffering, you are likely to merely live through it instead of evolving through it”.
This is excellent within the realm of materialism, but it also makes a great deal of sense in the spiritual part our lives.
They say that “Suffering ennobles a man”, but we know different. Suffering leaves some of us bitter, turns others into villains.
But only those of us who ask the “right” questions during their suffering, and reach out for the “right” answers are made more noble.
