Life doesn't happen inside a vacuum.
Small successes can feel like great victories because of what it's leading to next, or because of where we know we've come from to get there.
The same thing with losses. This is why we can break down crying over our computer not working or our car breaking down.
Because it's not that single moment that we are reacting to, but the building tension of dozens of small set backs, failures and losses that compound in our minds and souls until it feels like it's crushing us.
Every hurt. Every abandonment. Every time we're ignored or brushed aside.
This is why we sometimes behave irrationally, even to ourselves.
I read a quote recently, a paraphrase of Seneca, that said that we can find reasons for sorrow when we are looking for them, but that we can find reasons for joy as well.
I believe this to be true, although it is easier said than done.
Because every time something goes wrong, it's going to echo inside of every other time these similar things have gone wrong in our lives.
But I choose to believe that if we can find another focal point, a place to focus our energy that is forward and beyond ourselves, that we can pull up from each setback and each loss to push forward to be a better, stronger, wiser version of who we were today.
That's my thoughts on it for this morning.
May your losses be kindling for the fires of your greatness.
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