See problems as opportunities

Hello everyone, today I have taken an excerpt from the book " Just a moment ". You will find a completely different way of looking at a problem. 

When a problem comes, do I panic or do I see it as a challenge? Sometimes the whole world seems like a problem: sometimes I need to create problems so as to keep myself busy. A problem is only a problem when I call it a problem. A situation is only as difficult as I want it to be. 

                                                    Difficulties and disappointments are the events which lead me to maturity. After all, wisdom doesn't come with age; it is the gift of experience. 

                                        I have the tendency to imagine that my problems are greater and more important than anyone else's. It is, in fact, a subtle form of ego; the feeling that "my problem is worse than your problem, so you must give me regard."

        `                    More often I am so confused and clouded that I cannot see a clear way out of a given problem, with the result that fear and tension build-up and I become so irritable and self-pity. In that frame of mind, the smallest obstacle becomes huge.

                                I keep running away from situations that I find disagreeable; and the more further I run away from a problem, the more difficult it is to resolve.