I was talking to my 40-year-old aunt about a mutual relation of ours. All three of us are broke. I’m 23 and our relative is in her sixties. The topic of our discussion was struggling. It’s so ironic and sad really that at our different stages in life we’re all struggling to stay afloat financially. We both agreed that we didn’t want to struggle forever. We didn’t want to be 60 and still unable to keep the cable on or pay the car note on time.
There has to be a silver lining somewhere right? I thought if you worked hard now it would pay off later. But I see so many people still struggling in their days that are supposed to be golden. I don’t want my life to be full of pink slips demanding payment and notice signs. That’s a reality for so many older people I know and I don’t want to experience the same fate.
How do you hit that silver lining? When life throws you blow after blow, how do you find the strength to overcome? I don’t want to struggle forever. I don’t want to feel like all the work I’m putting in now is useless. How do you hit the silver lining?
