For the brow-beaten and the down-trodden.

If you don't feel Pain, how will you know Bliss?
If you don't feel Sorrow, how will you know Happiness?
If you don't feel Anguish, how will you know Delight?
If you don't feel Grief, how will you know Joy?

There are 2 sides to every story. The old cliche of the half empty glass is overused sometimes but it holds true. Is your glass half full or half empty?

Everything you go through is an experience...the pain, the sorrow, the anguish and the grief. But it is through these experiences that you become the person you are. You grow because of these and you are a lesser person without these. Imagine your experiences as a drop of water in the ocean. Insignificant though that drop may be, but the ocean will still be lesser because of that one drop.

So don't despair everytime something happens, rather, choose to look at what you can gain from it. And remember, if you think you're getting smacked with a kilo of shit, somewhere out there, some poor sod is getting rained on by a ton of shit. I leave you with this poem that i have no doubt you probably read a zillion times before from somewhere else...

DON'T YOU QUIT
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.