This is life
After arriving at the office by bike, I went to the changing room to take a shower and change my clothes. Last summer, I took cold showers quite often. This year, I haven't started taking cold showers yet. I thought it would be a good time to start again.
The difficult part about cold showers is the first few seconds when you go under the cold water pouring from the shower. The shock that the body receives at first when feeling the coldness of the water is uncomfortable.
At these moments, a thought came to my mind: "This is life, and I am fortunate enough to be experiencing it." I reflected about it more during the day.
Life is not only about being comfortable and happy. Discomfort and experiencing hardship are other sides of it. Life would be incomplete without either of these sides.
We all want to have a happy life. But we, or at least I, sometimes confuse the pursuit of a happy life with avoiding unhappiness.
Experiencing life to its fullest means seeing both sides: happiness and sadness, comfort and discomfort, having and losing. We do not understand the meaning of one without facing the other.
Only a person who has faced the difficulties of reaching the peak of a mountain knows how beautiful the view at the peak is.