Adversity An Advantage

To quote William Hazlitt, "Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." We can always learn more from challenging times than from good times. Adversity is the catalyst that forces us to stretch. It propels us to find solutions to problems we never would have considered if not for adversity. Adversity can provide the fuel that sparks new strengths we didn't realize we had within us. How we cope with adversity is also a learning experience. There are times in all of our lives where we have handled adversity well, and times where we have not. Next time adversity strikes, remember, you can use it to your advantage by learning from it. Horace said it well, when he said: "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."