Have you noticed how memes show up in your life exactly when you need their message?
This one recently appeared in my feed on Instagram. I don't know who originally wrote it. Otherwise, I'd credit this insightful person.
I've named it the "either way you win" meme.
I needed this message because I recently didn't get something I wanted. And it hurt. Big time. Still does, although time is healing the wound.
BUT.
Not getting what I wanted gave way to giving me the lesson I was supposed to get.
Either Way You Win
"Sometimes, you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty and life. Either way, you win."
What I like about this little piece of Internet philosophy is how it covers a lot of bases.
Who isn't facing a challenge with one or several of those words listed?
Faith. Meaning. Humility. Grief.
AKA...
Face punch. Gut punch. Drag-me-down-into-the-mud punch. Now-get-your-ass-back-up-and-out-there punch.
And of course, I especially like the last sentence:
Either way, you win.
When you get what you want, you win.
When you get your ass handed to you a lesson from experience, you also win.
I think getting the lessons can be more profound and transformational than getting what you want right out of the gate.
When I reflect on my life, the times I've grown the most (which is the ultimate prize, btw) are the times when I didn't get what I wanted, but rather got the lesson first.
THEN I could get what I wanted because I learned what I needed to learn!
See how that works?
For all the nonsense the Internet serves up every second of every day, gems like this one float around and boost my faith in the process.
Thank you to whoever penned these words this way.
Gave me something cool to think about.
And that's always a win.
