A common misperception people have is that problems are bad. That couldn’t be any further from the truth.
For one, we have the appreciation factor. How are you supposed to appreciate good health if you’ve never been sick? Wealth if you’ve never been poor? Love if you’ve never been alone?
Most people in the United States and other developed nations know on an intellectual level that people are starving in Africa. But they’ve never experienced scarcity so they can’t appreciate abundance.
When I hear religious people talk about “Heaven” it makes me sick. I don’t think faith is a bad thing, but I can’t help but feel nauseous when I hear about a magical place in the sky where problems don’t exist.
Do you understand how boring that would be? I sure wouldn’t want to live there.
Another great thing about problems is they provide feedback. They let us know when something went wrong so we can work to fix it.
You feel pain when you stub your toe as a protective mechanism to prevent you from further injuring yourself. In the same way problems exist to deter us from making future poor decisions.
When you begin to understand the true nature of problems you’ll learn to love them.
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