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The Bittersweetness of Life.

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Sometimes you are up, and other times you are down; sometimes you want to be cheerful, but the only emotion you can muster is sorrow. We all experience the bittersweet experience of life: death gives way to a newborn, pain and sorrow, laughter and tears, pain and gain, struggle and ease. Life is full of trials and tribulations; it is not a matter of if the hard times will come; it is about radically accepting whatever happens and learning from the experience. Do not get too high or too low; don’t let success get to your head and don’t let failure get to your heart. As author and motivational speaker Les Brown often said “Life is a fight for territory, and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.