Summary

The article emphasizes the importance of resilience and personal growth through life's challenges, advocating for a life lived as a positive example to others.

Abstract

The narrative underscores the significance of enduring life's trials with determination and tenacity, suggesting that survival is not just about personal endurance but also about learning and sharing life's lessons. It posits that some hardships are endured to aid others, and that the strength and courage to persevere are intrinsic to the human spirit. The author reflects on their own experiences, including surviving war, to illustrate that one's true capabilities are often revealed in the face of adversity. The article encourages readers to fight back against life's bullying with kindness and self-care, and to use their survival as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Opinions

Survival often requires suppressing emotions to avoid being overwhelmed by disappointment and pain.
Life's turmoil is an art that one must navigate by choosing battles wisely, understanding that some challenges are meant to strengthen the heart while others may only bruise the ego.
Some life lessons are not for the individual enduring them but are meant to help others, implying a broader purpose to personal struggles.
The author believes in serving others not for recognition but from a place of shared experience and empathy, recognizing that anyone could find themselves in similar difficult situations.
The personal account of the author's military experience highlights the involuntary nature of survival and the refusal to succumb to the enemy or to self-harm.
The author identifies as a firstborn daughter, suggesting that this role often instills resourcefulness and resilience.
The article rejects the label of 'empath' in favor of a pragmatic approach to learning from others to avoid unnecessary suffering.
The author admits to a combative response to life's lessons, choosing to rise each day with kindness and compassion as a form of resistance to negativity and injustice.

Survival Of The Fittest: Your Life Is A Testimony

Your life should be a message not a warning ~Unknown

A short story to remind some people about why they survived challenging times.

To survive life and the lessons that come with it one must be determined, tenacious and in many ways deny your feelings. To survive the challenges of life you cannot always express how you feel, wear your feelings on your sleeve or cry openly.

It’s not because you don’t care or you’re tough it’s because if you ever really start crying about all that has disappointed or wounded your soul you may not stop.

Surviving the turmoil of life is an art, you have to know what works for you and you cannot get swayed by your audience. What I’m now observing now is picking my battles because there will be some situations that will hurt your heart you will have to fight to get out of bed and others will just hurt your ego.

Some of us go through hardship and do not understand that sometimes the lesson is not ours we are going through it to help someone else. While most life lessons are challenging some people cannot walk across the street in your shoes.

I have the courage and strength for my journey just like those reading this story. I’m very intentional about serving those I get to speak life into. I often think I could be them or my children could be them.

I don’t help others for accolades I help them because in some way I have been them. I have not lived in desolate situations with no resources but I have lived outside for 7 months during the war with 5,000 other soldiers.

A few people have said to me I don’t see how you survived and I respond you never know what you’re capable of surviving until you have no other choice.

Quite a few of my fellow soldiers tried to commit suicide which was not an option for me. I was not letting the enemy kill me and I was not giving them the pleasure of me killing myself.

I’m a firstborn daughter by the way and only a firstborn daughter or only daughter would understand what I mean by that (hehe). Most firstborn daughters or only daughters are quite resourceful and not easily shaken.

No one will truly comprehend how hard it is for you. In the clinical world, colleagues have called me an empath. I respectfully disagree and confess I just do not like to suffer unnecessarily.

If I can learn by instruction I will if I can learn by someone else’s life lesson I’m that girl. While that works out sometimes the other 300 times that I could not learn life’s lesson with instruction experience has been a nemesis to my well-being.

The side of me that does not like bullies and life can be a bully sometimes and bring friends I decided to fight back the minute I recognized I was in a life lesson.

I fight back by getting up every day and treating those I serve with kindness and compassion. I fight back by taking care of myself in all spectrums of life.

I fight back against the world system of hatred, racism, and every other kind of ism with kindness. I’m not a doormat I’m human and I treat others the way I want to be treated.

You have survived for a reason, don’t give up on yourself or life, fight to stay here fight to help others and fight to not allow what you have been through to make you bitter. Survival of the fittest is real.

Thank you for reading

Be well!