Remember when you first learned about rain and rain clouds? If you were curious (which I’m sure you were) you would have asked your parents all about them. “Why does the sky turn grey?” “Where does the water come from?” Or my favorite one: “When will it go away?”
Your parents might have answered your questions or they might have shooed you away. It depends on the kind of parenting style your parents used on you. But either way, you learnt a fundamental thing about rain clouds:
If you wait patiently, they eventually go away.
Now why is this relevant?
Think back to the last time you were unsure of a negative situation. Maybe you just broke up with your partner and you were unsure if you would find another relationship. Or maybe you were looking for a new job for months with no success in sight.
In these situations, you felt the fear of the unknown. You craved the certainty of knowing when something would end.
But the key to handling them successfully is thinking of them as rain clouds. And if it’s a rain cloud, then you know: It will eventually pass too.
You can relax because you know it will end. All you have to do is wait patiently for the sun to shine through again. You’ll eventually return to normal and can deal with the next challenge.
So the question is:
Can you wait?
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