The perfect job with the most wonderful coworkers ever.  Living in our dream house.  Driving a brand new car.  The weather is sunny and the temperature is ideal every day.   Feeling good all the time.  Happiness abounds!  What a great world that would be!

Would it really?  If everything was just as we want it all the time, we would soon lose appreciation for what we have.  In fact, it would eventually become mundane and boring.

It is in the struggle that we receive the beauty.  Just as a cocoon goes through the process to become a beautiful butterfly, so must we work our way through the difficulties we sometimes face in life to become our best self.

“Disappointments have a usefulness – if you’ve never been unhappy how would you know what happy is?  Malcolm S. Forbes

Continually be on the lookout for ways to learn and grow so you can beautifully live your life to the fullest.