Can't agree more to the phrase that 'When the going gets tough, the tougher get going'. To substantiate the proverb from my perspective, I would like to cite thoughts from my mental transitions. Having had a consistently volatile tryst with 'Luck', if there exists any such notion like that, I have come across extremes of both the states-of-being. I have been fortunate enough to witness extreme joy, overwhelming success and praiseworthy accolades; and have been equally unfortunate to lose out on opportunities that mattered to me the most, drew flak for the erratic decisions I took, and often was written off by people who meant the whole world to me.
Whilst traversing through these 2 extremes, one belief system kept percolating through my mind, and this is an attempt to put some of it in words:
Your Good times, at times, literally make you a King of whatever, and you tend to forget the priorities you set in your life, tend to be complacent. You start paying lesser heed to issues, often writing them off as trivial ones, till they come back to haunt you and put you in jeopardy. You have to be overtly cautious in not letting success get to your head.
On the contrary, whenever you go through a rough phase in your life, when you are vulnerable to life's adversities along crucial dimensions like your Self-Esteem; Success; Career; Love; Joy; Character; Wealth or Health to name a few, you start probing yourself. You start to question your own adequacy, and you introspect to get to the root cause of issues, that you're facing.
You get to meet your real self, where you find out the negative things about you in the most unbiased manner possible, and identify your good traits, with utmost desperation.
Having said so, I don't want to support the nomer that, tribulations should have a permanent presence in your life, they shouldn't. So what should we do about it. Well, tough times, since they call for tough measures, would require you to work upon yourself, to combat the crises life puts you into, but after you've over come them, and sailing smooth on the joy road, make Modesty your best buddy.
By being modest, you gradually start believing and complying to one of the most important laws of nature - the truth of constant change. By adhering to this philosophy of life, you won't lose heart and hope, while going through miserable times; nor would you lose your cool when you witness success.
The only thought that made me go through and believe in the above notion, is that "If I am miserable today, why should I feel hopeless, when things are not going to be like this forever, likewise, If I accomplish something great, why should I let this get to my head, when things are not going to be like this forever..!!"
This quest for self can be a great source of solace, whenever you have to take a hit in life and have to go down, this quest paves way for the thought of survival to come to your mind, helps you in getting up, helps you get going in life. !!
