Challenges

The only real challenges which count come from ourselves.

Sometimes other people place challenges, but those challenges are nothing but questions which need actions as answers. And if the question is unimportant, there's no real need to answer.

But the challenges which come from ourselves; those are important. Even though these challenges come from within us we have no say in what they are - because these challenges are made by the life around us.

They're made by the people we know, the things we need, the things we know, the people we love, the people we need, the things we love and the ways all these things interact with each other and change and twist and turn.

We have no say in the matter; sometimes our lives will present us with a challenge. And we may try to hide from it, but as long as we live the lives we do the challenges will remain.

And that leaves one question: face it or run away from it. And if the time to decide comes and you run from it or deny it then your life's been wasted on you.

But if you decide to take it on, then you've got to be ready to challenge your life back - before it overruns you and leaves you with the things you least desire.

Or worse: without the things you most desire.