Hardship Has Its Value
Parents are not different from other people; they do neither want to have hard times for themselves, nor for their children. No parents wish to see their own children facing hardship but in certain conditions their children cannot escape it because it is impossible for parents to prevent it from happening.
In this situation, you have to bear in mind that hardship is not too bad for people to endure it. If we consider it in the field of education or in other matters, the good side of it or the benefit of having hardship is that it turns us into tougher and most enduring people. It makes us powerful thinkers and even become leaders in the same way as forging iron and turning it into a much harder one.
It is hard to teach people to be strong in helping oneself because it requires from them to be tough in overcoming the hardship first. There are many people who become good as a result of being tough in facing hardship. They are the one who abide to the Cambodian saying: “hardship is followed by good time”. It means having patience and perseverance, which are between hardship and the bright time.
In contrast, there are a lot of people who know only how to enjoy their life; and do have never encountered hard times and difficulties. Whenever, they have to face hardship, they hardly can help themselves, cannot do anything, cannot stick to one thing and they even cannot cope with any kind of work. They can hardly survive. Some of them cannot face the hardship and they finally die, therefore don’t be afraid of hardship. You have to remember that ‘hardship’ is your trainer.
Dear children, you have to face hardship with patience, you must benefit from hardship, gain virtues from it and take hardship as a lesson that you have to study and think that you will not return to face the hardship again.
The following is the rendering of a Khmer poem into English:
An inferno can burn all trees in a forest, but it can make the steel harder.
In the same way suffering burns people and deprive them of refuge, but it makes determined people to realize the truth. Nothing is better than virtue, and patience is required in struggling. The content of water in a small container can only soak something small, but with perseverance it can make a large container full.
Viro means courageous people, who dare facing the suffering with patience, perseverance, and trained mind. They help to overcome tremendous suffering as well as bring in virtues. Benefit from work is the human value, and working hard can help avoiding mishaps. It helps overcoming obstacles and it bring in virtues, which are the treasure for life. Persons who are tough like steel are not stubborn. They try hard to eliminate conceit. They become gentle and kind, but strong in character and hard as iron in observing their honesty.
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