The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows

Let's be honest...

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.

Even if you make a decision to better your life - to work your way back up when you're on the bottom and to stay positive.

Your demons will follow you.

You can pretend for weeks, even months, that everything is okay - but you will feel it. You're blaming somebody for the past. You're blaming somebody for the situation you are in now. Maybe you are blaming yourself. You feel the anger, the frustration on how life treated you. You are sad, you are mad. You remember John Lennon's quote: "Life is what's happening while you are busy making plans."

People that you thought were your friends don't seem to put themselves in your situation and don't understand your suffering. You are lonely. Are you?

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows" speech from Rocky Balboa

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[superquote]Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that![/superquote]

This is a quote from the movie Rocky Balboa.

What to do when the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows

Now we know what not do do. Pointing the finger doesn't solve anything, unless we're pointing to a responsible person who is not only admitting failure, but offers a genuine solution to a problem. Let me ask you... How much did you see that happen?

I'm not saying you shouldn't put your trust in other people, but if anything life has taught me is that you can't put your trust in other people. It sounds way more bitter than it is actually...

But what you should have realized by now is that life presents you only with problems challenges that you can handle.

So you gotta fight, right?

Naturally you might feel pumped up by Rocky's speech and are ready to fight. But let me tell you that the world has much more experience in trading blows than you have had. So you just can't go in there and expect to win without any tools at hand.

So what is your greatest weapon you possess, when you're broke in a monetary matter, when you have trouble coming your way and everything seems to be against you? Is it your friends and family that either: