Because we are rational beings, problems are normal. The need to decide on things is precisely why we encounter challenges that we often refer to as problems. It does not need to connote a negative situation, a problem is just anything that we need to decide with or choose one over the other.

Since we were children, even if we don't notice it we make decision that we think would make us feel better. Simple things like the toys to play, cartoon show to watch and so on and so forth, The act is spontaneous and we don't really need to be told. The presentation of choices meant we ought to decide. And coming up with a decision is solving a problem.

Life's journey is an endless problem solving activity. Problems may come in different degree of emotional impact as we age. Sometimes it comes unnoticed and ordinary because we encounter it everyday and apply the same solution every time. There are times that our problems traumatize us and gives us pain. It causes us to panic. Simply because the circumstance is completely different from usual yet we ought to decide. This is a process that we face in life. First we encounter a circumstance that needs thinking. Then we come up with a choice. That choice might bring favorable results or could worsen things. So we always have to be critical about it. But whatever the case might be, there will always be time that we go back through the first step. This is a cycle that neither one of us may be able to break.

The question now is why? I have asked the same question over and over. I have even prayed hard that God would just take away the burdens and let me live a problem free life. I bet most of us have the same prayer. Yet through the years, when most of my prayers were granted, a problem free life or even a day is never achieved. Though the good thing is the realization that problems are not just simple challenges thrown at me to solve for no reason at all. A problem is an opportunity for individual growth and stepping forward to learn a higher level of knowledge. When faced with a difficult situation that I need to decide on, of course I will be confused yet this time I know I have to find a solution. I have already accepted the fact that I have to grow up and decide. Yet even if in most cases, I want to be as objective as my rationality dictates. To face problems for they are normal and necessary. I cannot avoid feeling down and getting heartaches as if I cannot live through the situation. There is always

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