"Das Leben ist eine Baustelle" - or...

...The Challenge of Life

“The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen.
They are. 
The question is, when they do happen,
how are we going to choose to look at them,
contextualize them, and navigate them?”
Jeffrey R. Anderson

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For me
Life is like a building site, 
or in German: "Das Leben ist eine Baustelle".
A building site which has to be finished - or completed.
A building site filled with a series of daily challenges....

 with "heavy stones"
and unexpected surprises/discoveries we have to deal with.
Positive and negative ones.

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The biggest challenge is - probably - to bring up children.
To educate and prepare them for real life.
To give them a solid "foundation" - like building a house.

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Writing this post a song crossed my mind,
a song Kevin Johnson wrote for one of his sons:


"With wide eyes you wonder why you understand some,
And you don’t understand all the rest,
Well, little boy,
your daddy’s been living a while,
And I really don’t know much myself,
I’ll teach you the whys and the wherefores,
and the ways of this world I have known,
But life is a journey of different directions,
And sometimes we travel alone.

And Scotty,
life can be rough,
life can be tough,
life can go wrong,
Scotty, life can be fun,
life can just come rolling along,
So live with the good times,
and learn from the bad,
And laugh at the fun times you’ve had,
Look for the reasons to carry you through,
And Scotty,
that’s all you can do."




 "And you wonder why some days are fun days and Sundays,
And some days may not be the same,
Well blue skies are many and grey skies are few,
So we do what we can in the rain,
The whys and the wherefores are there for a reason,
and sometimes we don’t understand,
But life is a journey that’s leading us somewhere,
And we get there the best way we can....."

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“When spring knocks at your door,
regardless of the time of year or season of our lives,
run, 
do not walk to that door, throw it open with wild abandon,
and say, "Yes! Yes, come in! Do me, and do me big!”
Jeffrey R. Anderson 



Then our days are filled with...
softness and loveliness


and we can feel like being "bedded on roses".

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Reasons


by Kevin Johnson

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 "Das Leben ist eine Baustelle"

Life is all you get!

Life is a challenge - meet it
Life is a gift - accept it

 

Life is a sorrow - over come it

Life is a tragedy - face it
Life is a mystery - unfold it

 

Life is a opportunity - take it
Life is a promise - complete it

 

Life is a struggle - fight it
Life is a goal - achieve it
Life is love - love it
Life is adventurous- have fun
Life is a duty - perform it
Life is a game - out smart it
Life is a beauty - praise it

Life is great - make something good of it

So life is a celebration –
eat, laugh and do meditation.
by gurjas singh narula, India


 
by Rachel Ruysch, about 1685

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 Life is a challenge for all of us:

our monthly special post
here

 The biggest challenge for me is
 to accomplish my "building site"
 keeping in mind that


Life can be rough,
life can be tough,
life can be kind,
 life can be fun,
life can be one wonderful time.

So let's live with the good times,
and learn from the bad,
  laugh at the fun times we've had,
Look for the reasons to carry us through,

because....

...that’s all we can do.

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remark:

Jeffrey R. Anderson:  
 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13638121-the-nature-of-things---navigating-everyday-life-with-grace

German Film: "Das Leben ist eine Baustelle"    here