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How to Roll with Life’s Punches
by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 12, 2018 | Aging Successfully, Life, Life Lessons, Self Fulfillment, Spirituality, Uncategorized
This phrase is a boxing term used to explain how a fighter can angle themselves in a way that takes the sting out of the opponent’s blow. In essence, if the punch comes at you from your left, it will lose its power and force if you move to the right. This is how it is in life.
Whether we like it, the “punches”of life come to us in the form of change. This is the inevitable force that sends your life reeling and disrupts your sense of security and predictability.
If you have any doubt about this, think about the changes happening in your body. Not only are you not in the body you were in ten years ago, you will not be in the same flesh and blood several months from now as your body regenerates its cells.
This reality of life leaves you with two choices, you can minimize the force of the punches by accepting and going along with them or you can take them full force by pissing and moaning about them every step of the way. Rolling with the changes brings you satisfaction, fulfillment and joy, battling and bemoaning them casts you to a lot of misery and suffering.
