EXPLAIN HOW WE BECOME STRONGER WHEN WE ARE FACED WITH DIFFICULT TIME

Explain how we become stronger when we are faced with difficult time

Difficult is a common word to show a hard situation. Every
cloud has a silver lining, which means you should never give up
hope because bad times always lead to be better ones. Difficult
time can be imagined like a cloud pass our overhead which means
it will be brighter after before. Facing difficulties and obstacles is
part of human’s life because who is has not face a tough time?
These difficulties occur on a daily basis, affecting people all around
the world. The longer we live, more challenges and tough times we
will confront. As we know, people who are having a hard time, they are struggling through it and
sometimes they want to escape from their problems without solving it. We have to know that life
is a long journey and we will never find an easy life as the world we live in is not a perfect.
Logically, an easy life will be boring cause we never face any challenges make us be a better
one. In our family, one of the difficulties that we faced was when our niece had been sexualized
by her babysitter. This situation gave us hard time for accepting it especially our sister’s family. It
is because, she was traumatized and scared for sending her daughter to the nursery again. So,
this incident taught us to be more matured in solving problems, encourage us to understand each
other, and our bonding becomes closer.

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This incident teaches us to be matured in solving problems
because we will think about the solution without being emotional.
Generally, being emotional will lead us to make a rash decision that
can harm ourselves as anger and madden can make us more susceptible to low-
reward decisions. That’s why we must give ourselves some spaces and times until our emotions
are at the normal state in order to think wisely in deciding the decision and avoiding from choosing
the wrong path. For instance, our family took the problems with fully hearted. As we gathered the
information, talked to them without argument and others. Not only that, after this incident also, we
always sit together and discuss about the solution because it can find the best way to solve the
problems. However, in this pandemic we use ‘Google Meet’ as our platform or medium to discuss
the problems as our ministry health had been asked us to stay at home from avoiding the virus
spreads over the world. So, it is clear that through this incident leads us to be more matured in
finding the best solution without following our unstable emotions.

The incident happen to our sister makes the whole family
understand each other well. It is because we listen our siblings’
problems attentively and validating their feelings. Listening to
other’s problem looked like a simple thing but truthfully it helps
them to get a strength and positive mind for facing their difficulties
situation calmly and wisely. For example, in our family incident we
never knew about our sister’s problems and what she had been
through in her life because all of us were as busy as a bee with our daily activities. But after
listening and knowing about her problems, we became are more concern about her condition. We
seldom ask her situation, financial wise and many other things. Consequently, she gets some
positive vibes and tend to become professional in solving the problems. Not only that, our family
always avoiding from getting quarrelling about something that can make our relationship is being
apart. It is because we concern about their feelings and situation and trying to put ourselves in
their shoes to understand their problems. It can reduce their burdens as they already told their
problems to us and felt that someone was understand their situations for having a hard time in
their life. So, we can see this incident had encouraged us to understand each other better.

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This incident leads us to be closer with our family as we
become more supportive by always giving some advices and
motivations to who’s have a tough time in their life. So, they will gain
some strength in order to face their difficult moments well. Not only
that, we also support our family’s member by going vacation
together to release their stress from thinking about the problems.
Furthermore, it can foster our relationship as we have more time to
spend with the loved ones and to indulge in our favorite activities.
For example, having a meal together during picnic, organizing a
sport event and others. This moment is really fun to enjoy as it makes us relax and put our mind
at ease. As a result, we will get a positive circle surrounding us and think that our family is the
best person to share our problems. So, it is clear that our bonding family become closer as we
are being supportive with each other after facing this incident.

In summarize, patently we can see that life is beautiful,
exactly like roses, but it also has thorns that must be faced and
overcome by everyone. So, enjoy our life while also being ready
to suffer the stings of pain as it will make a better person in the
future. Not only that as difficult time can give us lesson to become
better in communicating towards our family. It had been proved in
our family as we become more matured and professional in
solving the problems, being understand each other better and well and also our bonding become
closer by having a hard time together.

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coronavirus outbreak. National Centre for children and families.
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