Stuck in the Mud - or Not

Picture your life standing on a spot, looking out on a scene of a beautiful pond. Life is great. Next to tha spot is a area of mud.

Suddenly, shockingly you are forced to turn away from that scene and thrown into the mud (loss). It is slowly pulling you down into it (sadness,regret,hurt).

Miraculously, you are able to see clearly a road off in the distance (your life path). You never saw it before, because you were so fixated on the scene of the pond.

Unfortunately, you keep turning back to see the pond, however the view is blocked (finality of loss).

The more you look, the lower you sink in the mud.

Immediately, your realize you MUST make a choice: sink (depression), or do the very hard work of pulling yourself out and finding your way to the road.

DO THE HARD WORK NOW - the road will be easy later.