Do we undervalue struggle?

I was thinking about this a few weeks ago. My life has not been absent of struggles although I am one that sees how much worse it could be. I am always thankful for what I have had and what I have gotten to do.

Sometimes that makes it harder. There is guilt in wanting more. But I do want more. And maybe it’s not more exactly but different. I don’t know about boys but for us girls, we go through life wanting to be one step older. I see this in my girls. When you’re in elementary, you want to be in and relate to others in junior high but once you are there, you wish you were in high school and then college.

I am seeing that in myself now. I am so close to that next step in life, and I want to be there now. It is hard to live in the moment when you are struggling through things and in your mind that next step will solve all your problems.

It won’t but maybe the struggle now will help it appear to. Maybe the things will seem all that sweeter when they come to you, because you had to do without them for so long.