Adjusting priorities

SUMMARY: Experiencing loss is a normal and human reaction, but we can learn to adjust and live without what we once had. It's important to re-evaluate our priorities and understand that material possessions are not essential. Spiritual wealth is crucial for true happiness. Choosing to surround ourselves with like-minded believers and making commitments to our faith may come with criticism, but the reward of peace is worth it. Life may throw us curveballs, but we have the Word of God and supportive brothers and sisters to help us through. Don't hold onto material possessions, hold onto God's Word and nurture relationships with fellow believers for success.

We have all lived experiences of loss that paralyzes us. I remember that when I traded in my house to give my daughter an apartment, I was very depressed, so I had left behind a beautiful, spacious, private house, in which I had lived for more than 20 years. This fact upset me emotionally. It is a normal and human reaction, one of losses. It is a duel that you establish with yourself. Little by little, I understood that I could live without my spacious and beautiful house, because I chose to reason what had happened and take advantage of the change, discovering that I could be happy without what I felt so attached to.

Also when I underwent a total thyroidectomy with lymph node dissection, due to a diagnostic error in the biopsy, I felt that life had been too unfair to me and depression made its triumphant appearance. These losses can cause us to re-weigh our priorities. I do not mean that we should live without a good house, or that it is a pleasure to live without the thyroid gland. What I want to emphasize is that life did not end there. I just learned from these experiences. And I adjusted my actions so that life's bumps were less painful.