TOUGH TIMES AND TOUGH DECISIONS

The Epics teach us with clarity and conviction that suffering is a part of life just as happiness is.
It is the mind and intellect that gives  different analysis in defining suffering.
Many life coaches have suggested different skills in teaching us how to handle suffering.
Seldom do these life coaches speak of taking tough decisions in life at the cost of hurting oneself.
Arjuna is the best example of a person who had to take the tough decision of fighting his own grand father who he loved more than his own life. 

The choice was between feeling good about the relationship or taking a decision on behalf of dharma and causing physical harm to Bhisma and emotional harm to himself.

It is easier to be harsh when some one is angry but it is difficult to take tough decisions when dealing with loved ones. Many soldiers leave their beloved to go to battle causing huge pain.   So Arjuna was in great dilemma, in fact moving towards giving up everything in favor of feeling good in relationship with his grand father. But Sri Krishna, logically proposed the hard choice for the sake of dharma he had to make. Arjuna accepted, but without giving up his love but resolved to fight for dharma.

In Ramayana we see Sri Rama,it was an ordeal to abandon mother Sita. It was not out of choice rather it was the surrounding that pushed him in chosing what he did. No husband is as respectful and loving to Sita as Sri Rama was but he had to take the tough decision. He loved her but he was forced to make a tough decision for the higher principle as the King.

Tough decisions are harder than tough times, because tough times come on their own and the other the tough decision has to be taken by the individual.  

Does it make sense?