Master Chi’s suggestion to you: go to the entrance of any large hospital’s emergency room. Don’t do anything — just stand there and watch the people coming and going.
Not to build your happiness on others’ suffering.
But to help you understand that everything you’re facing today — career setbacks, troubled marriages, life’s misfortunes, all of it — becomes utterly trivial in the face of real life and death.
So don’t despair at every little thing. Stop spending your days sulking and complaining.
Here’s the truth: that “terrible hand” you’re holding — in the eyes of the many who have come through worse — is practically a heaven-dealt winning hand.
So when you hit a problem, what do you do?
Meet it as it comes. Respond first, then think about solutions. See how others have handled similar situations. Then figure out how to approach it from another angle.
Master Chi has witnessed far too many storms in this lifetime. The deepest lesson: every problem under heaven has countless ways to be handled.
But the worst approach — without question — is to stare at the problem all day, sighing and lamenting, draining every last drop of your vitality and spirit into it.
Tell yourself this: life is a journey of endlessly climbing hills, all the way to the very end.
Don’t be afraid. Don’t panic. Keep your head down and push forward — you will always find your way out of the darkest places.
(Feeling a bit rough with a cold these past couple of days, so writing a few more thoughts on life. Hope my brothers and sisters will bear with me [hugs])